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TIL Mia Khalifa was raised Maronite Catholic

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awL4y TIL that Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, annulled Henry VIII's marriage to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, beginning a chain of events that would culminate in the English Reformation.
mk7v TIL that an elephant’s ability to smell water is so refined, they can sometimes detect water sources from as much as 12 miles away
VMalQ TIL Sigmund Freud considered believing in a single god to be a delusion. He also stated that religion "comprises a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find in an isolated form nowhere else but amentia, in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion".
NXEAM TIL The song "My Mammy" famously sung by Al Jolson in the first talkie film "The Jazz Singer"in 1927, was first sung in 1918 as a vaudeville act by William Frawley, who later became a star in the TV show "I Love Lucy".
wx9M TIL every Grammy statue awarded in the last 30-odd years has been made by one guy in a little town in Western Colorado.