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TIL that even though the Vatican says a bishop or archbishop should be referred to as "His/Your Excellency", the Canadian government does not recognize it, and instead refers to bishops by their title only

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QNkgX TIL Olympia, Washington's Chinatown was once known as "Locke Town" as Chinese residents were predominantly from the Lok family villages in southern China. WA governor Gary Locke's grandfather settled in Olympia as a teenager from China in 1890. There is no more Chinatown in Olympia
kJY9m TIL Fred Astair, who danced his butt off at The 1970 Oscars, was born in 1899
4kVXJ TIL there are nearly 100 statues of animals in London, compared to 50 statues of women.
4Xb7g TIL the first mathematical theorem to be created and proven on TV was on Futurama (The Prisoner of Benda). If two people could switch unique pairs of bodies only once, it requires only two extra individuals to return everyone to their original bodies.
vPPKL TIL a surgeon implanted human teeth into cocks’ combs to study transplantation in the 1700s