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TIL after a Jewish six-year-old was taken away from his parents by priests, people involved tried to avoid returning him by publicly claiming the child had learned the catechism perfectly within a few days & was claiming "I am baptized and my father is the Pope."

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b9wwp TIL that the nuclear warning systems for both US and Russia aim to detect a nuclear weapons before they hit the target so that a retaliation can be launched before their own weapons are destroyed. The system has given at least 22 false alarms which could have caused a nuclear war.
GP11 TIL that in most legal Nevada brothels, if the customer arrives by cab, the house gets 50%, the cab driver gets 30%, and the prostitute gets 20% of the revenue.
r7Re TIL of “Montreal’s Night of Terror”, a sort of real-life Purge with bank robberies and looting, as the Montreal police went on a 16 hour strike.
kJ0Y5 TIL about Pandanus Language which is only ever used by some New Guinea peoples when collecting Pandanus nuts
eMN5 TIL: in 2012 a proposal was made in the Netherlands to create legal, VIRTUAL child pornography to help satisfy pedophiles’ needs and hopefully make them less likely to act out their fantasies.