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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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YppAG Turns out the phrase "cold feet" actually has some, erm, scientific footing.
9Y08Q TIL that there are farmers who schedule planting, cultivating and harvesting of crops based on moon phases
jN6VN It depends on who you are and where you live. Humans thrive in Kuwait City, where average highs top 110° for several months a year. But extended runs of hot days and warm nights do lead to spikes in mortality, and climatologists expect an increasing number of heat waves in years to come.
eppe5 TIL US Customs and Border Protection allows their officers to have racially motivated and gang-related tattoos... they just need to cover them up while they are at work.
VB45Q TIL Albert Einstein wrote a preface to the German edition of Upton Sinclair's 1930 "Mental Radio" book, which explores telepathy and the authors' experiments in psychic communication with his wife. He wrote that the book "deserves the most earnest consideration from psychologists"