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TIL Tibetan mythology has zombies (ro-lang) and that Western zombie-narratives depict them very similarily

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nWj0W TIL that the oldest Quran manuscript was carbon dated to be around the year 568 to 645.It is called the Birmingham Quran manuscript and it is located in Birmingham University.It was most likely written during the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad.
n16W TIL Brandolini’s Law:The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
mxZ6E TIL: Take any prime number above 3 and square it then -1 and it will always be a multiple of 24!
awvBA TIL Ben Franklin "predicted" Titan Leeds, a rival publicist, to die on Oct. 17, 1733. When he proceeded to not die, Franklin published an obituary anyways. When Leeds challenged this, Franklin insisted he did in-fact die and would only acknowledge the "inferior imposter" until Leeds actual death.
e0BK4 TIL Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter, was afraid of parrots