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TIL that Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia adopted 40 Armenian Orphans from a monastery in Jerusalem 1924 and trained them to play musical instruments becoming Ethiopia's first Official orchestra.

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d8pDB TIL that people have been living in the multi-storey buildings of Taos Pueblo for over 1,000 years, the longest continuously inhabited place in the USA.
OoR4Y TIL the Khlysty, a Russian Christian sect, would engage at the end of their services in "group sinning" (a frenzied sexual orgy), to purify themselves from the lusts of the flesh. They believed that salvation required total repentance, which was far more achievable for one who had truly transgressed
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