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TIL: Jesus is the most mentioned person in the Quaran

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kJ16E TIL after the WWII, there was a third government that existed in Korea but it was disbanded and outlawed by both the Soviet Union and the US, with its leader assassinated by a far-right South Korean
16oNP TIL that kelp isn’t actually a plant, it’s part of a fourth group of organisms called protists.
GYBY4 TIL at Boston’s Logan International Airport, two American flags fly above gates B-32 and C-19. These gates are where American Airlines flight 11 and United Airlines flight 175 departed from on 9/11.
69vRJ TIL in 1965, Air India airlines commissioned Salvador Dali to design an ashtray for the airlines. Dali requested an elephant as fees so the airline flew a two year old elephant from Bangalore to Geneva. After Dali lost interest, the elephant was taken to the Barcelona Zoo in 1971.
kO51d TIL that Saint Valentine is not only the patron saint of love, but also of beekeeping. This puts a different perspective of the common Valentine's Day phrase "Bee Mine".