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TIL That it is a taboo to wear green hats in China because it signals you as a cuckold

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PL4J TIL Henry VIII had someone who’s job it was to wipe his bottom for him. They were called ‘Grooms of the Stool’ and Henry VIII had 4 of them during his reign, all of whom were knighted!
4ooo TIL In the Bible, The New Testament mentions that from Heaven will descend an enormous city named New Jerusalem made of “pure gold, like clear glass” and gives its specific dimensions, 1.9 million square miles. If rested on the Earth, its ceiling would be inside the exosphere.
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