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TIL that the New Testament in the BIBLE was written nearly 100 years after Jesus Christ ~ 70 CE

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PYoYO TIL in 1969 LIFE magazine published a cover story called “The Faces Of The American Dead In Vietnam: One Week’s Toll.” Page after page of images of young men, 242 of them, killed in seven days of fighting the war in Vietnam.
Eg9dX TIL of the Euphemistic Treadmill whereby euphemisms, which were originally the polite term (such as STD to refer to Venereal Disease) become themselves pejorative over time.
b9rlE TIL the Chinese Government claims only ≈200 were killed during the Tiananmen Square protests, though, recent findings indicate over 10,000+ were massacred.
04G5 TIL the final design for Chewbacca was based on an illustration for a 1975 novelette by George R.R. Martin
LkO9V Concorde’s top speed is actually limited by temperature, not power and they were always painted white to help keep everything cool.