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TIL a Tennessee magistrate judge once ordered a woman to change her son's name from "Messiah" because "The word Messiah is a title that has only been earned by one person, and that one person is Jesus Christ."

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R7Z7j TIL Culhuacan king allowed a small migrant Aztec tribe, the Mexica, to settle on his lands. 24 years later they sought marriage with the Culhuacan princess. Rather than marry her, the Mexica sacrificed her, then invited her father to a banquet where a priest wore her flayed skin as a garment.
nnRB TIL American painter Tyree Callahan converted an old typewriter from the 1930s into a machine that prints colors instead of letters; from this he has typed out a series of colorful landscape paintings
VAXG TIL once you’ve had an infection, 1 cell that produces the right antibodies for that virus is stored in your bone marrow for the rest of your life, readying the immune system to respond quickly and efficiently if that virus ever invades again.
loDlK TIL that the comedy "The Country Wife" written in 1675 was banned in Britain for 175 years for being too sexually vulgar. The main character, Harry Horner, claims to be impotent to sell "china" to the wives of upper-class Londoners. At the time, "china" was a popular euphemism for sperm.
7r15Z TIL performance artists Teching Hsieh & Linda Montano spent one year tied to each other at the waist with an 8-foot-long rope. They had to stay in the same room while indoors (including at Montano's teaching job); and they were not allowed to touch each other until the end of the one-year period.