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

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0dymj TIL Craig Bartlett the Hey Arnold creator was married to The Simpsons creator Matt Groening's sister (Lisa Groening) and co-write a novelisation to Hey Arnold with Matt Groening's other sister Maggie Groening.
DQpZe TIL about Tartary, the historical name for Central Asia and Siberia, which has sparked conspiracy theories about a hidden past and mud floods. This globalized version posits that demolished buildings, like the Singer Building and parts of different Worlds Fairs, were involved in the cover up
loYxN TIL because Western music were so hard to come by in Soviet Russia, a counter culture known as the “stilyagi” began developing bootleg vinyl records from X-rays—also known as “bones”—that they would then sell on the black market. Getting caught with one resulted in 3-5 years in a hard labor camp.
0wO1N TIL great white sharks are not apex predators, they are occasionally hunted by orcas for their fatty livers!
LkJDV TIL that it rains diamonds in abundance on Saturn and Jupiter. These two planets are the largest in our solar system and are filled with gas with extreme negative temperatures that under the effect of lightning produced by thunderstorms produce more than 1000 tons of diamond every year.