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TIL the Vatican once offered time off Purgatory to people following the Pope on Twitter

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wLYeJ TIL that in the opening ceremony of the 1936 Olympics, Haiti and Lichtenstein discovered they had identical flags. The following year, Lichtenstein would add a crown to their flag to help differentiate it from Haiti
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