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TIL There have been multiple people who’ve been claimed to be the Messiah

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ADoPo TIL Star Trek's training exercise Kobayashi Maru has been used by computer security educators to teach students to think like an adversary, that by stepping outside the rules of the game one can redefine the game, and why you should teach your students to cheat.
dV5B TIL that Iran has banned the mullet haircut to “confront the cultural assault by the West”.
bAOE TIL the population of China today is greater than the entire world’s population at any point in history prior to 1900.
BgGZr TIL that there are trees that benefit from being struck by lightning.
6EQK8 TIL Scapegoating was an actual practice where a town would place all of their sins on to a goat and then cast it out of the town to die, thus 'removing' the sin from the town's people.