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TIL Montreal recently started taxing churches

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ygVp TIL Ella Fitzgerald worked for the mafia, got sent to boarding school, ran away, and was living on the streets when she debuted at the Apollo Theater… all by the age of 17.
x7ro TIL Bob Marley’s “No Woman No Cry” is actually titled “No Woman Nuh Cry”. Which translates to “No Woman Don’t Cry”. It’s a comfort song for a woman, not a comfort song for men with no woman!
OoLxY TIL About Britain's "Anthrax Island," an island used for testing a single anthrax germ bomb by the UK in WW2. It was determined an anthrax bomb could render cities uninhabitable for generations. Quarantined for decades, the island was declared inhabitable again after a cleanup effort in 1986.
0Z8A TIL the human cornea extracts oxygen directly from the air. It has no blood supply.
Bgyad TIL a hypothetical black hole with a size of just 0.2 millimeters (1⁄127 inch) would have the same mass as the Moon