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TIL there are Seven Heavenly Virtues paired with the Seven Deadly Sins

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W7549 TIL that 'The Teachings of Don Juan' and its sequels were submitted to the UCLA Department of Anthropology as non-fictional accounts of shamanism in the American Southwest; they earned their author a PhD. The books were later discredited as fabrications
4g6X TIL that there is a non-profit group in Detroit that has planted more than 81,000 trees in the city since its inception in 1989. It is successfully promoting urban farming and reclaiming of vacant lots for new greenspace.
LkrYm TIL a revolution in Germany helped end World War One
5V1xQ TIL that Quasar 3C 273 is so bright that if it were only 33 light years away, it would outshine the Sun in Earth's sky. 3C 273 is 4 trillion times brighter and 886 million times more massive than the Sun.
69M08 TIL that a Japanese man named Yasuo Takamatsu searches for his wife's remains after she was lost in the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan.