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Today I learned that God used to have an equally divine wife, Asherah before the advent of fully monotheistic Judaism.

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noy7 TIL since the 1990s, Carmel, Indiana has been replacing all signaled intersections with roundabouts. Benefits include gas savings of 24k gallons/year per roundabout; construction costs $125,000 less per intersection; injury accidents dropped by 80 percent and total accidents dropped by 40 percent.
KR9Q TIL of Dan and Fran Keller, an innocent couple recently released from prison after 20 years, who were convicted, by pseudo psychotherapists and Christians, of abusing and dismembering children in Satanic Rituals
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