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TIL only 2% of members of the Church of Sweden regularly attend Sunday service

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NyMN TIL the woman general, Liang Hongyu, after being wounded and seeing her intestines hanging out, realized she would die. So, she pushed her intestines back in, bound her abdomen, and then said to her followers, “Today is the day I die for my country!”. She killed dozens.
0wY5M TIL that in the movie 'Titanic' , if you take away the modern-day scenes and the credits, the runtime is the same time it took for the real ship to sink (2 hours and 40 minutes).
L7K0 TIL Laverne from Scrubs was only killed off because Bill Lawrence was under the impression that it would be the last season of the show. He promised her actor a role, and cast her as a near identical nurse named “Shirley”.
JYRLk TIL Playboy featured a transgender model in 1991
x61aB TIL that Tarzan actor and Olympic swimmer Johnny Weismuller and his brother were swimming in Lake Michigan when they saw a boat capsize. They pulled at least 14 people from the water, and 11 of those people survived.