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TIL of 1,000-year old windmills still operating in Iran
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TIL James Barry was born a woman but disguised herself as a man in order to join medical school. She performed one of the first known successful Caesarean sections. The new born was christened James Barry Munnik in his “her” honor. Her identity was discovered when she dead.
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TIL that in 2009, a man was sentenced to 18 years in prison for felony assault after pointing his gun at officers raiding his home in a no-knock raid. He was shot five times and police didn’t find the drugs they were looking for.
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TIL Rita Wilson was in the Brady Bunch
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TIL of Gnosticism, a early form of Christianity that viewed Yahweh as a evil, lesser god who created the material universe (which was purposely flawed) . They believed Jesus saved them from Yahweh to meet the one, true God who was shrouded in mystery. This was condemned as heresy by the early church
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TIL comedian Tom Lehrer once stated: “Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize”