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TIL The Salvation Army is run by evangelicals

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4pZ6 TIL that in ancient Sparta, men were only given the honour of a gravestone if they died in battle, and women were only given it if they died in childbirth.
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vPee8 TIL that the earth core has two massive blobs called “large low-velocity provinces” that are likely remnants of a ancient planet that hit earth billions of years ago
Eg5Zw TIL that in 2004, 1/3 of the men in the Pitcairn Islands were accused of assault. Their defense rested on the fact that British sovereignty of the islands was illegitimate, as the colonists were descended from Royal Navy mutineers. A new Court had to be created specifically to have jurisdiction.