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TIL Atheists cannot hold office or testify as a witness in Arkansas

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4kgKw TIL Indian rock-cut architecture : Practice of creating a structure by carving it out of solid natural rock. The oldest rock-cut architecture is found in the Barabar caves, Bihar, which were built around the 3rd century BC. The earliest cave temples include the Bhaja Caves, the Karla Caves.
WlJX TIL That the officer in charge of guarding Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theater left his post to go drinking at the same bar where John Wilkes Booth was building up the courage to shoot the President.
Y70od TIL Sparrow Force, a mostly Australian WW 2 unit, was stranded for 10 months on a Japanese-held island, fighting against 100-to-1 odds, with no radio for most of that time. A radio was improvised & sent, “Force intact. Still fighting. Badly need boots, quinine, money, and Tommy-gun ammunition.”
9EEB TIL that having children in your early 20s was a US cultural norm only for baby boomers, and that earlier in the 20th-century eugenicists had warned against it
OEa4 TIL that the world’s longest TV commercial was an Arby’s ad that aired on a local Minnesota TV station and showed the entire smoking process of a beef brisket. Duration: over 13 hours.