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TIL it’s said that when Napoleon claimed to have the power to destroy the Catholic Church, a cardinal responded, “Your majesty, we, the Catholic clergy, have done our best to destroy the church for the last 1,800 years. We have not succeeded, and neither will you.”

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b6RGp TIL that the state of Iowa used to have an even 100 counties until Bancroft county was abolished in 1857 and joined Kossuth county, thus making it the largest county in the state. Since then, two attempts at recreating the county have failed, leaving Iowa a state of 99 counties.
7rAab TIL of Paul D. Hubbard (1871–1946) who was a deaf American football player who is credited with inventing the modern huddle. Hubbard was a quarterback on the Gallaudet football team and he started the huddle to prevent the opposing team from reading their sign language.
Rbll TIL falling while water skiing or on a slide can cause a flood of water to enter the anus or vagina in an injury called “water ski douche”
R5Dv4 TIL all the world’s bacteria stacked on top of each other would stretch for 10 billion light-years. Together, Earth's 0.001mm-long microbes could wrap around the Milky Way over 20,000 times.
e0Nm4 TIL of the Sator Square, a palindrome word square found in the ruins of Pompeii. The five words carved into it, "SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS" can be read top-to-bottom, bottom-to-top, left-to-right, or right-to-left.