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TIL A local interrupted William the Conqueror's funeral service to complain about the church stealing his land (they did), and when attendants tried to cram William's already fat and now bloated body into the tomb it popped, stinking up the church.

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oBOgK TIL Returning from the last moon landing Charlie Duke (LM Pilot A16) lost his wedding ring. During an EVA to get film from outside the craft & standing in the open hatch tethered to Ken Mattingly the ring floated out, he missed the catch, it bounced off Ken’s head. Charlie caught it on the rebound.
4Xdd6 TIL a study of prayer for cardiac bypass patients found that prayer had no effect on recovery and that patients who knew they were being prayed for actually had more complications
gMjVy TIL Harvard once spent$ 100M on vineyards
GYdeQ TIL that the best-selling Christmas song of all time, White Christmas, was written by a Jew whose own Christmas tradition was visiting the grave of his son who died on Christmas day in 1928 at the age of three weeks old. That son was Irving Berlin, Jr.
nV7b TIL in 2007 the Pope (Benedict XVI) called creationism “absurd” because “there is much scientific proof in favor of evolution”