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TIL that the Pope released a prog rock album
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TIL about Mary Bell an 11 year old girl who murdered two small boys in cold blood.
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TIL about the "Wow! signal", the strongest candidate for an alien radio transmission ever detected, received in 1977, by the Big Ear radio telescope in Ohio.
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TIL that the grading system used by schools in the United States is A, B, C, D, or F because teachers were concerned that students and parents would think "E" stood for "Excellent" in an A, B, C, D, E system.
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TIL that the Ancient Egyptian text Debate Between a Man and His Soul is about a man deeply unhappy with life without the will to continue to live, saying one cannot find friends anymore and that nobody is good anymore. It is considered the oldest text on depression. It ends on a positive note.
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TIL that the US Department of Education made around 51 Billion dollar profit off of government student loans, equivient to the profit of PMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo combined.