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TIL it is a mortal sin to withhold a just wage in Catholicism. Remuneration “should guarantee man the opportunity to provide a dignified livelihood for himself and his family on the material, social, cultural and spiritual level.”

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QJvXE TIL male bats have spiked penises, likely to produce a velco-like effect while mating in flight.
vPw98 TIL in 2005 the comic strip "Pearls Before Swine" ran a week-long crossover where the PBS characters discussed the oblivious "Family Circus' family taking in Osama Bin Laden. It concluded with the family being taken to Guantanamo Bay.
7DOr TIL that once your GPS unit realizes it is traveling faster than 1200mph (1900kmph) at an altitude higher than 60,000ft (18,000m), it will automatically shut itself down in fear that it is being used in an intercontinental ballistic missile-like application.
kWlg TIL that the forbidden fruit was never identified as an apple in the original Hebrew texts.
xVJy7 TIL The last two remnants of the virus known to cause smallpox, which are kept in tightly controlled government laboratories in the United States and Russia. In 2013, cloned variola major (smallpox) DNA fragments were found in a South African laboratory.