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TIL A Humanist can have a faith or belief in god. The difference is that a humanist will be guided by their conscience over a teaching of a religion.

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4XA96 TIL Brendan Gleeson (the man who played Mad-Eye Moody in Harry Potter movies) is the father of Domhnall Gleeson (the man who played Bill Weasley).
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W7709 TIL about a failed 1850s rival to the telegraph, which involved pairs of snails and the hypothesis that snails formed permanent telepathic links after they had sex.
69BOQ TIL Frank Sinatra had a bottle of jack daniels placed beside him in his coffin.