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TIL Christianity existed in China as early as 635 AD

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bwaZ TIL that Scientology staff are required to salute the dogs of leader David Miscavige as they pass by.
OokRL TIL during China’s Ming Dynasty, powdered smallpox scabs were blown up the noses of the healthy. The patients would then develop a mild case of the disease, & from then on were immune to it. Although the technique had a 0.5–2.0% mortality rate, it was better than the diseases 20–30% mortality rate.
Br6pD TIL that most of the early Islamic heritage sites in Saudi Arabia, associated with family and companions of Muhammad, have been destroyed since the rise to power of Saud family in early XIX century
69YW TIL French and Italian have a lexical similarity (the degree of similarity between two languages) rating of .89, and generally languages are considered dialects if the similarity is above .85.
rRpQ4 TIL that the invention of early bikes was prompted by a vulcanic eruption in Indonesia that led to a year without summer and the starvation of many horses.