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TIL about the Gnostic Gospels. Early Christian texts that claim the creator god from the old testament is actually the devil and salvation can only be reached through a personal relationship with an abstract higher power.

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5XWr TIL that Bret Hart was unaware he was going to lose the WWF championship belt during a 1997 pay per view. This is referred to as the Montreal Screwjob.
vPddL TIL in 2020, Venice’s gondoliers’ association reduced capacity on their boats, blaming the increased burden of “overweight” tourists.
DQ0Xj TIL about the Paracas culture, an Andean Society dated 800 BCE – 100 BCE which had Fantastical Textiles, Mummy Bundles, and Geoglyphs predating the Nazca Lines
OoYDa TIL that prisoners in Paris were offered freedom if they married prostitutes and moved to Louisiana
0w0OR TIL there is a robust black market for Tide laundry soap, with drug dealers accepting it as payment and shoplifting rings finding it more lucrative and less legally risky than other illegal schemes.