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TIL Blackbeard’s flag depicted a skeleton spearing a heart while toasting the devil.

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Z8eQD TIL it is forbidden for Muslims to go to the Mosque after eating garlic, onions or other food of offensive smell
R5Ngj TIL that Marilyn Monroe spent most of her childhood in foster homes and orphanages until age 16 when, upon being faced with being returned to an orphanage, she chose to get married to her neighbour's 21 year old son, drop out of school, and become a housewife.
OoJW1 TIL MMA fighter Rory MacDonald would come out to music like M.C. Hammer's "U Can't Touch This", "300 Violin Orchestra" and Nickleback because the music guy was texting Rory's old phone number for his walkout music and a fan was responding
YJmx TIL the Vatican’s chief astonomer, Fr. George Coyne said, “Intelligent design isn’t science even though it pretends to be. If you want to teach it in schools, intelligent design should be taught when religion or cultural history is taught, not science.”
KONM4 TIL about Wreckhouse Wind Warnings, which are only issued for one specific area of Newfoundland and Labrador.