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

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QGBp TIL the rules to Monopoly clearly state that if a player lands on a property and doesn’t buy it, it immediately goes up for auction to the highest bidder.
xVjAw TIL that, in addition to Father Christmas, Icelanders are visited by the 13 Yule Lads (including Sausage-Swiper, Spoon-Licker, & Door-Sniffer), as well as their giant pet cat Jólakötturinn, who eats children who don't receive new clothes for Christmas.
wJ6E TIL that in the Detroit area, sliding glass doors are sometimes known as “doorwalls”.
7rjoX TIL the renouned British pub meal, 'Ploughman's Lunch', was invented in the 1950s as a marketing exercise. The Cheese Bureau, a marketing body, began promoting it in pubs as a way to increase the sales of cheese, which had recently ceased to be rationed.
oBMNE TIL a male Kangaroo is called a boomer.