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TIL The Vatican has no resident embassies located within its territory, they're all in Rome. Therefore, Italy's embassy to the Vatican is really in Italy and Taiwan's (Republic of China) embassy to the Vatican is in Italy while Italy doesn't officially recognize The Republic of China.

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N7rp8 TIL that a horse, Beau, saved his stablemate, Beatrice, from being put down. The shire horse had collapsed and the owners, unable to lift her, set a deadline for when she'd have to be put down. With 20 mins left, Beau went to Beatrice, bit the back of her neck and helped her stand up. She recovered.
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