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TIL that The right to practice religion freely does not include the right to expose the community or the child to communicable disease or the latter to ill-health or death…Prince v. Massachusetts 1944

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dgEE TIL the elite fighting unit of Ancient Thebes was the “Sacred Band of Thebes”, a force comprised of 150 Gay Male Couples who crushed the Spartans in multiple military engagements.
RPg6 TIL a creationist used the shape and appearance of the banana as proof of intelligent design. He later retracted his statements upon learning that bananas are a result of artificial selection by humans.
R7VZ7 TIL that while filming Armageddon, Ben Affleck asked director Michael Bay, why it was easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts than it was to train astronauts to become oil drillers, and was told to shut the fuck up.
57rn TIL that there is a sexually transmittable cancer among dogs in which the tumour cells are passed from dog to dog during copulation.
aO5J TIL KitKats are considered to be good luck in Japan because the Japanese reading of “KitKat”, “kitto katto”, sounds similar to “kitto katsu”, a phrase which translates to “surely win”