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TIL The largest landowner in the world is the Catholic Church

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pY5ae TIL the Kitti's hog-nosed bat aka bumblebee bat is the world’s smallest mammal by body length 29-33mm(1.1-1.3”)
JYl1v TIL French author Antoine Saint-Exupery actually wrote The Little Prince in Long Island, NY after fleeing France during the German Occupation in 1940. There was also a brief reference to New York in the original transcript that ended up getting cut.
Br7De TIL that in 1777 Thomas Jefferson drafted the Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom. When it was enacted, religious freedom was guaranteed to all persons, including Muslims, Jews, and Hindus. In addition it also was one of three things listed on Jefferson's grave.
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