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TIL:October 5, 1582 doesn’t exist.

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7roL TIL the German GSG9 counter-terrorist force has completed over 1,500 missions and yet only discharged a weapon five times.
4JNR TIL that Cambridge University conducted a test in which pigs were shown a mirror and encouraged to retrieve objects reflected in the mirror. The test results suggest that pigs can differentiate between reality and the reflected image, thus demonstrating a high level of cognitive awareness.
NNKN TIL Fred Phelps, founder of the Westboro Baptist (“God Hates Fags”) Church, was excommunicated from the church he founded shortly before his death, because he apparently had a change of heart about gay people, calling the gay activists living across the street from the church “good people”
nOpb TIL the first of a set of twins, Samuel, was born at 1:39 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016. His brother Ronan was born 31 minutes later just as daylight saving time had ended, making him 29 minutes older.
6MGl TIL that, in the late 980’s, Vladimir the Great chose to Christianize Russia rather than Islamisize it partly due to Islam’s ban on alcohol, saying, “Drinking is the joy of the Rus’, we can’t go without it.”