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9BOr TIL Ataturk criticized Islam saying “It is no good for modern, progressive state. God’s revelation! There is no God! These are only the chains by which the priests and bad rulers bound the people down. A ruler who needs religion is a weaklings. No weaklings should rule!”
QNL56 TIL about Chen Tao, a Taiwanese UFO religion. In 1998, its leader predicted that God would appear on U.S. TV and perform miracles, but nothing happened and he later apologized and offered to be stoned or crucified. No one took up the offer.
J1lQV TIL that the first Medal of Honor awarded by the U.S. Army was given to a group of Union soldiers who hijacked a Confederate train during the "Great Locomotive Chase" in 1862, a daring sabotage mission that became a pivotal moment in the Civil War.
J1gbB TIL That nitroglycerin, an explosive compound, can be used to treat anal fissures.
JQ0v TIL: In 1979, Kane Kramer not only drew (quite accuratly) what would become the iPod, he accurately predicted digital music downloads before the internet as we know it existed.