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TIL of the Adam Cult, consisting of a single Bangladeshi family. They believed their grandfather (who died in 2000) was the original Adam, that all religion was fake, and that all humans were divine. In 2007, the family jumped in front of a moving train. None of the 9 members survived.

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pYAeQ TIL that in 1901, Elisa Sánchez Loriga and Marcela Gracia Ibeas were wed by a priest. Elisa, wearing a suit and donning short hair, presented as a man. She told the priest that she was called ‘Mario’ and concocted a fake backstory. The priest married them believing they were a heterosexual couple.
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