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TIL The Catholic Church kept Jesus’ foreskin as a holy relic until it was stolen in 1983.

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worY8 TIL the first food ever smuggled into space was a corned beef sandwich. It was smuggled onboard the Gemini III NASA mission on March 23, 1965 by Astronaut John Young to give to fellow astronaut Gus Grissom. Grissom was not scheduled to eat anything during the 4 hour 52 minute orbital mission.
9Yp6M TIL Prince Yasuhiko, the perpetrator of Nanjing massacre was never charged after the war because of he was member of the Imperial family. General Matsui was executed despite forbidding his men to loot and expressed grief in his diary when his order was disobeyed.
1avkV TIL that DNA tests revealed that King Tut's parents were actually brother and sister.
eAk4 TIL that big banks can borrow money from the government at a much lower interest rate than college students
Bgobr TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't allowed to dub his own role in Terminator in German, as his accent is considered very rural by German/Austrian standards and it would be too ridiculous to have a death machine from the future come back in time and sound like a hillbilly.