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TIL: when St. Jerome translated the Bible to common Latin, he made the forbidden fruit an apple as a pun.

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GYnb4 TIL After being threatened by the KKK for releasing the R&B track "What a man" in 1968, Linda Lyndell didn't perform again for 35 years, only making a comeback after Salt-N-Pepa sampled the song in their hit "Whatta Man".
nPRd TIL a Baltimore hairdresser helped prove that ancient Roman Vestal Virgins’ hairstyles were not wigs, as was commonly believed, but was instead achieved through the use of needle & thread, which she showed by recreating the hairstyle on a live person for the first time in centuries
0d785 TIL of the Great Leonids Meteor Storm that occurred on November 13th, 1833 in which more than 72,000 meteors per hour fell to Earth, and which according to one observer caused the night sky to radiate so bright with falling stars that “people were awakened believing that their house was on fire!”
gMn6W TIL of the meteor that hit the Russian town of Chelyabinsk, The light from the meteor was brighter than the Sun, visible up to 100 km (62 mi) away and released 26 to 33 times as much energy as that released from the atomic bomb detonated at Hiroshima.
88db TIL that the design head of Corvette wanted the Mako Shark Corvette painted to look like the shark mounted in his office. When the design team couldn’t match the colors they stole the shark and painted it to look like the car. The design head never noticed and was happy with the results.