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TIL that in 1965 the Roman Catholic Church, under Pope Paul VI issued the declaration "Nostra Aetate" which repudiated the theological position of "Jewish Deicide" which claims that all Jewish people, past, present, and future share an inherited guilt for the Crucifixion and murder of Jesus Christ.

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wDxo Til Deadpool is multilingual, with the ability to speak fluently in German, Spanish, ASL(Sign Language) and Japanese, in addition to his native English and he is Omnisexual. “Deadpool is whatever sexual inclination his brain tells him he is in THAT moment. And then the moment passes.”
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