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TIL that when a priest asked Voltaire to renounce Satan, Voltaire’s last words were “Now is not the time for making new enemies”.

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OGPbg TIL that according to an FBI report, Elvis Presley believed the Beatles had led young people astray “by their filthy unkempt appearances and suggestive music”
v1JR4 TIL one of the most well-known and robust hypotheses linking household income and ecology, the luxury effect, suggests that urban biodiversity, and plant diversity in particular, is positively correlated with neighborhood wealth. This is particularly pronounced in arid ecoregions and biomes.
X9a8 TIL Kwanzaa was first celebrated in 1966 and is an African-American thing, not an African holiday
D16NY TIL there are species of owls who freeze mice to eat later — when they’re hungry, they just sit on a mouse until it thaws and eats it then
wLMV8 TIL when John Balson started off as a butcher in Dorset in 1535, Henry VIII was on the throne. Hundreds of years later, the Balson family continues to trade just a few streets away from where their first market stall was set up in Bridport. They are the oldest family business in UK.