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TIL: Gregory the Great- 6th Century Pope (and Saint) wrote of Mary Magdalene as a prostitute, despite there being no record of this in Scripture. Contemporary scholars agree that Mary Magdalene was likely an upper class woman who supported Jesus Christ- but not necessarily a prostitute.

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D1eaj TIL after 30 WWII veterans in their mid-nineties were shown ‘Dunkirk,’ the general consensus among them was that they loved the film and thought it captured events very accurately, but “thought the soundtrack was louder than the actual bombardment.” The comment amused Nolan greatly.
kybe TIL that one of the earliest records we have of dreadlocks are from a civilisation in Crete
97gG TIL that since 2011 we have reduced the US Military by 946,364 people.
6JW8 TIL that in 2004 a $300,000 diamond was lost in an F1 crash. The diamond was attached to the car to promote Ocean’s 12 and was never recovered after the crash
E10NV TIL the Deadpool film was only given the green light after test footage shot by the directors two years earlier was mysteriously leaked online. At first Ryan Reynolds thought one of the directors had released the footage but whoever leaked the footage at 20th Century Fox still remains anonymous.