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TIL that a secret underground vault containing the remains of about 800 toddlers was found in an abandoned Catholic maternity home for unwed pregnant women, run by Roman Catholic nuns.

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KOEa TIL the word awkward may be related to the Great Auk, a relative of the penguin. Which means socially awkward penguin just took on a whole new meaning to me.
OoNpa TIL that in England, the period, as in the punctuation mark indicating the end of a sentence, is called a full stop.
VBJ7p TIL that in the 1994 Caribbean Cup, a rule change plus the need to win by two goals resulted in Grenada trying to score in either net and Barbados defending both nets.
R5kba TIL that Leon Spinks was the only person to take the world title from the defending Muhammad Ali, as Ali had only previously lost when he was the challenger or when the title wasn’t on the line.
ADPEo TIL the political "Left" and "Right" picked those sides in 1789, when French revolutionaries in the National Assembly decided which side of the room they would sit on. "So as to avoid the shouts, oaths, and indecencies that enjoyed free rein in the opposing camp." -Baron de Gauville