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TIL the surprising history of Christmas trees

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4ooo TIL In the Bible, The New Testament mentions that from Heaven will descend an enormous city named New Jerusalem made of “pure gold, like clear glass” and gives its specific dimensions, 1.9 million square miles. If rested on the Earth, its ceiling would be inside the exosphere.
ep44J TIL that the Zodiac Killer supposedly wrote a complaint to the San Francisco Chronicle that the 1973 movie "Badlands" was "murder-glorification" and asked the paper to cut it's advertisements
GGRQ TIL - ‘The Napoleonic Code’ gave Women the Right to Divorce, Freedom of Religion, Forbade Privileges Based on Birth, and instituted much more. It’s regarded as one of the few documents that have influenced the world.
awAP9 TIL a Scottish woman named Maggie dickson, was sentenced to execution by hanging on 2nd sept. 1724, she survived the hanging and climbed out of her coffin as it was being transported. The courts ruled she was a free woman as the punishment had been carried out. Known after as 'half-hangit maggie'.
5ZXR TIL if you bought $100 of bitcoin 7 years ago, you’d be sitting on $72.9 million