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TIL that Jews believe God has a 72 letter name that allows the speaker supernatural powers. This name allowed Moses to part the Red Sea

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OG4P1 TIL Post Malone & Swae Lee’s ‘Sunflower’ song from the 2018 animated movie “Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse” became the first ever single to be certified as double diamond or 20x platinum in the US. On top of that, Post Malone has also the most diamond certified singles in RIAA history.
kOop5 TIL: Butter comes in different shape and size sticks between the east and west coast of North America. East coast comes in long, narrow sticks called the Elgin. West coast comes in short, thick sticks called the Western Stubbie.
VM5Am TIL every crewed spaceflight by the Soviet Union and Russia from the first crewed spaceflight by Yuri Gagarin until 2002 used a mechanical computer as navigation instrument
pGkN TIL that a black Nigerian couple gave birth to a “miracle” blond white baby.
nAQr TIL Arunachalam Murugananthan invented cheap and durable menstruation pads purely because it saddened him that his wife, and women across India, could not afford them. In the process, his wife left him, he nearly lost all of his money and was ostracized by his own community.