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TIL Conan O’Brien was once stalked by a Catholic priest

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y6Yp TIL that the world’s oldest known complaint letter was written to a Sumerian copper merchant named Ea-Nasir almost 4000 years ago on a clay tablet: “You put ingots which were not good before my messenger and said: ‘If you want to take them, take them; if you do not want to take them, go away!’”
MnJ0 TIL that until 2011, anything containing less than 10% alcohol in Russia was considered a foodstuff, not an alcoholic beverage.
0wdLR TIL Thomas Jefferson was Deist, the belief that a God created the universe but hasn't interfered with it since.
wZ8W TIL the original screenplay for Spielberg’s Lincoln biopic was 500 pages long. Rather than cut down the whole thing, he took the 160-page section about the 13th Amendment and made the film about that instead
X00aX TIL that Andres Serrano's Immersion (Piss Christ) was destroyed by vandals in 2011 in Avignon, France