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TIL that swearing on the Bible is forbidden by the Bible.

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JYj88 TIL that Ronda Rousey won a Bronze Medal in Judo at the 2008 Olympics. She was the first US woman to win one.
1aGG8 TIL of Jonny Kim. His accomplishments include being a former Navy Seal with 100 combat missions, a Doctorate of Medicine from Harvard, and will soon be an astronaut for NASA
rJe1 TIL in 1975, a man died of laughter watching the “Kung Fu Kapers” episode of The Goodies. The skit featured a kilt-clad Scotsman with bagpipes battling a man with a black pudding. His widow later sent The Goodies a letter thanking them for making the final moments of her husband’s life so pleasant.
VBlBm TIL that for 2 years Ghanaian and foreign scientists investigated what they thought was a monkey-borne outbreak stemming from a large forest, only for it later to be revealed the area had neither a forest nor any monkeys and was in fact a large industrial city.
XEWlD TIL the desert rain frog is too round to hop, squeaks like a toy, and spends their time waddling or burrowed—sometimes for months at a time. They also skip the tadpole stage entirely.