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TIL that the old testament was not written with the same hebrew alphabet that is used today. It was written using the paleo-hebrew alphabet.

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mPKx TIL that Billy Gumboots the goat, president of the small NZ town of Whangamomona from 1999 to 2001, was elected after he ate the opponent candidates’ ballot papers and died in office 18 months later. Tai the Poodle was then elected, but retired after less than a year due to an assassination attempt.
Nj78 TIL Alan Shepherd, first American in space, told reporters his final thought before takeoff was “the fact that every part of the ship was built by the lowest bidder”
deAr TIL that the most accepted theory on how AIDS was first transmitted to humans is that a Bantu hunter, while processing a newly killed, and infected, chimpanzee, got cut himself and got the animal’s blood into his body.
VDoZ TIL that carrots used to be purple until the late 16th century
VBwZD TIL There are about 2000 collisions involving a train each year in the US.