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TIL that after the Columbine High School massacre, Marilyn Manson trademarked his stage name so he could issue cease and desist orders to silence media who were wrongly blaming him for inspiring the killers

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8akDb TIL that Adam and Eve weren't alone in Paradise, according to some Jewish lore. With them were Lilith and Samael. Lilith was created alongside Adam (not from him) to be his wife, while Samael was the one who commanded the snake to tempt Eve, and is actually the true father of Cain.
xme7 TIL taking magic mushrooms, just once ,can permanently change a person’s personality, even as an adult.
1Jo8 TIL there is a free online library with over a million ebooks available for “borrowing”
eDbk TIL that a chimpanzee Washoe, the first animal to learn American Sign Language, was able to combine the hundreds of signs that she learned into novel combinations that she hadn’t been taught and created herself. She also taught her adopted son some American Sign Language.
rNRbd TIL the famed Tuskegee Airmen of the 332nd Fighter Group won the Air Force's first Top Gun-style competition but kept it secret until a historian uncovered it in 2005