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TIL there have been more Catholic prime ministers of Japan than there have been Catholic prime ministers of Britain and Catholic presidents of the US combined

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gMPvW TIL the phrase “The First World War” was used as early as 1918, by a journalist who felt it would not be the last.
OgEX TIL that Ernest Hemingway once won a bet by making a short six word story that could make people cry
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