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TIL that Mary (mother of Jesus) is considered one of the most righteous women in the Islamic religion. She is mentioned more in the Quran than in the entire New Testament

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wLP4J TIL Chicago mobster Sam DeStefano loaned money at interest rates of 25% by week to very high-risk debtors such as drug addicts, in order to torture them in his cellar when they defaulted
wLYG7 TIL the best man’s original purpose was to serve as an accomplice in case the bride needed to be kidnapped from disapproving parents.
ANwel TIL that both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were skeptical of the results of the 1790 United States Census. They believed that the true population was higher than the total of 3,929,214 people counted in the Census.
X0PLR TIL Coca-Cola in the US is sweetened with high fructose corn syrup, not sugar. I guess that accounts for most of the difference in taste between American and British (and other) Coke.
89aK TIL that diamonds are not as valuable or rare as we think: they’re only expensive because of a worldwide monopoly on diamond mines.