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TIL that Vatican tradition forbids performing an autopsy on a pope after death.

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ANrMx TIL October 8, 1871, there was a wildfire in Wisconsin called the Peshtigo fire. The Peshtigo fire is the deadliest wildfire in recorded history, but news about it was overshadowed at the time by another fire happening elsewhere on the same day—the Great Chicago Fire.
nWagd TIL that dogs were used as mine delivery vehicles
9wk16 TIL that the music video for Erasure's 1988 song "A Little Respect" features the logo for Depeche Mode's 1987 album "Music for The Masses" (2:52). Vince Clarke was a founding member of Depeche Mode, but left in 1981 to form Yazoo, then Erasure.
grWnb TIL that in 1972, 80,000 Ugandan Asians were expelled from Uganda because they were 'better off than Ugandan Natives'
R5Wl1 TIL Emerson Romero was a silent film actor who was deaf. When movies with sound were invented, deaf actors got less roles and the intertitle text was removed. This led him to make an early form of movie captioning in 1947 so that movies would still be accessible to deaf people.