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TIL Christianity is the fastest growing religion in Iran.

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Ya9B TIL the discoverer of the Titanic found evidence of ancient habitation beneath the Black Sea, suggesting a flood of “biblical” proportions.
1jW8 TIL in 1980, Detroit gave Saddam Hussein a key to the city out of recognition of donations he made to local churches.
4X6Dw TIL Wadi-al-Salam, the world's largest graveyard, covers 1500 acres, sees 350 burials a day and contains 5 million bodies.
oRrk7 TIL Tina Turner has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame... twice. Once as Ike & Tina Turner, and a second time as solo artist.
dDl67 TIL that a congregation called the Yardbird Temple in San Francisco began worshipping acclaimed Jazz saxophonist John Coltrane as God incarnate. Although he has since been demoted to mere sainthood