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TIL that the Ten Commandments contain fourteen distinct un-numbered directives, and there are at least eight competing traditions of how to combine different directives to get to ten.

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y4ae TIL the first student protest in the United States happened at Harvard in 1766 when a student yelled out “Behold, our butter stinketh!— give us therefore, butter that stinketh not.” This sparked The Great Butter Rebellion.
vPaJ4 TIL: If you have IQ of 69,it indicates intellectual disability
Eyo0 TIL Shakira was banned from her school choir because her music teacher didn’t think she could sing and ‘sounded like a goat’
J1lmB TIL that to satisfy a record contract, goth rocker Andrew Eldritch recorded an album as the band SSV-NSMABAAOTWMODAACOTIATW, said to stand for "Screw Shareholder Value - Not So Much a Band as Another Opportunity to Waste Money on Drugs and Ammunition Courtesy of the Idiots at Time Warner.”
6Ee9Q TIL that two Scottish clans fought a trial by combat to determine who would get the better position in an upcoming battle against a third clan. Only 12 of the 60 combatants survived.