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TIL that the official stance of the Catholic Church is that they support the theory of evolution.

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Y78vG TIL that a dangerous form of electric shock therapy still gets used on disabled people, specifically by the Judge Rotenberg Center, their methods of treatment are considered torture by many advocates, and the FDA is still trying to get their specific shock devices(GED) banned
pYAJA TIL that despite being besieged virtually continuously through more than three years of civil war, Plymouth never fell to the enemy.
nenxB TIL Obscurantism is the practice of deliberately presenting information in an imprecise and recondite manner, often designed to forestall further inquiry and understanding.
xVrVb TIL a moustache is a beard
Wk7MX What can liquefy its limbs, throw up its own stomach and still live? Echinoderms, a group of sea creatures that can regenerate their own body parts! In this episode of Today I Learned, National Geographic Explorer Paul Bump tells you all about echinoderm’s incredible capacity for regeneration.