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TIL the Quran says do not blow yourselves up.

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P1aJJ TIL When the core body temperature inside the nose drops by 5C, our immune system cannot fight the viruses as well
k4Og TIL that famous Mormon Brigham Young once said “If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of [Africans], the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so.”
8wOK TIL that Mel Brooks was nominated for a Kennedy Center Award by President Bush. He refused the award, saying “Well, I’m going to wait for another president, if I’m still alive, if you don’t mind.”
EQap TIL David A Trampier, famed for his early Dungeons and Dragons artwork, essentially disappeared in 1988 and resurfaced in 2002 as a cabbie in Illinois.
60nl TIL that a small town in Kansas has one of the largest space museums in the world, including Liberty Bell 7, the Apollo 13 command module, the Gemini X spacecraft, Vostok and Voshkod spacecraft, an SR-71, Nazi V1 and V2 weapons, and several full-scale launch rockets