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TIL that with only one exception, the United States Coast Guard does not award the Medal of Honor because it is their belief that nothing is “above and beyond the call of duty”.

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6EGWJ TIL most of the Founding Fathers were likely Deists and not Christians, but saw organized religion as a useful tool for governing the masses
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rA6d TIL that there is a 1 in 2000 chance that a comet will hit Mars in 2014, if it does it will change Mars’s climate into a hotter, wetter world.
mxmRP TIL That the "God of the gaps" is a term used to describe observations of theological perspectives in which gaps in scientific knowledge are taken to be evidence or proof of God's existence.
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