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TIL that the Catholic Church considers the theory of evolution to be “virtually certain”, and believes that intelligent design “isn’t science even though it pretends to be”.

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gnK9 TIL there was hundreds of thousands of Irish slaves and it wasn’t just African slaves.
y7Xv TIL When cotton comes into contact with super glue, it catches on fire
Y68P TIL John Oliver was recommended to Jon Stewart for a job on the Daily Show by Ricky Gervais. Oliver didn’t know Gervais personally at the time and had never been to the USA before auditioning.
lyAG Til: Ralph’s (a grocery store in Southern California) turns all non-donateable food waste into biogas which they use to help power their warehouse. The byproduct of that is then composted and sold as fertilizer to local farms.
nPeP TIL John Lennon referenced his beating women in the lyrics to Getting Better. In a Playboy interview he said. “I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. I will have to be a lot older before I can face in public how I treated women as a youngster.”“