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TIL John Adams called Christianity a "fresh revelation" but if there was no Heaven; his advice to every man, woman, and child would be to take opium.

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Ooyb1 TIL of Ekaterina Mikhailova-Demina, who was the only woman to have served in front-line reconnaissance in the Soviet marines during WWII. She carried hundreds of men to safety. In 1944, she helped assault a Ukrainian city, singlehandedly attacking a German position and taking 14 prisoners.
OoW4g Today I learned that the reason we have muscle cars from the 60's was because NASCAR banned engines that were not in production models so Plymouth in order to keep their big Hemi engines in racing, put them in regular stock vehicles giving us the big horsepower in those 60's hotrods.
XA0r TIL enough cheese was produced in 2011 to give each person on Earth 3 kg of cheese.
GYpxG TIL that Hiram Revels, the first-ever black US senator, occupied the Senate seat whose previous occupant was Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America.
yVekw TIL All of the bases in DNA and RNA have now been found in meteorites