› added 5 years ago

93

TIL That when Napoléon I emancipated the Jews he stated "I will never accept any proposals that will obligate the Jewish people to leave France, because to me the Jews are the same as any other citizen in our country" the Russian Orthodox Church labelled him as the 'Anti-Christ and The Enemy of God'

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

LlvQ TIL The Mormon prophet Joseph Smith claimed to have transcribed The Book of Abraham (Genesis v2.0) from ancient egyptian papyri, which scholars later determined was actually common Egyptian funeral documents.
eyLk TIL Thomas Jefferson created his own Bible, 46 pages long, using a razor he cut and pasted selected verses. It excluded angels, references to the Trinity, and all miracles by Jesus including the resurrection.
1VBr TIL In 1977 we received a signal from deep space that lasted 72 seconds. We still don’t know how or where it came from.
OM7g TIL that in 1835 Richard Lawrence attempted to assassinate President Andrew Jackson. When both of his pistols misfired, Jackson proceeded to beat Lawrence with his cane, and was then aided by Davy Crockett.
DZar TIL that while awaiting his execution via guillotine, King Louis XVI of France actually pardoned his executioners for the crime of murdering their king.