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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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jQwa TIL in 1933, three Japanese school girls crossed in love committed suicide by jumping into a volcanic crater on the island of Oshima. This act started a bizarre trend in Japan, and in the following year 800 other people leapt into the same crater.
6768 TIL Reminder - Main song from “O’ Brother Where Art Thou’ was an archival recording of an actual prisoner 40 years earlier. The record label tracked him down, paid him, and took him to the Grammys.
rAy0 TIL that Winston Churchill, after being told that he could not drink in front of Saudi King due to the King’s religious beliefs, said “my religion prescribed an absolute sacred rite smoking cigars and drinking alcohol before, after, and if need be during all meals and the intervals between them.”
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