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TIL about Frederick Roberts, British General and the only other person of the 20th Century apart from Winston Churchill to lie in state in Westminster Hall that wasn't a member of the British Royal Family

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Zp874 TIL Secretary of State Anthony Blinken wrote a recorded this funk song in 2020
rRA5x TIL of the “availability heuristic,” by which people judge the likelihood of events based on the number of times they hear about them. Explains why many people are pessimistic about the world given the amount of media coverage available, which favors bad news.
NPDJ TIL That Dick Cheney’s wife wrote an erotic lesbian novel and tried to cover it up
QLBk TIL in 1950, Pope Pius XII confirmed there was no conflict between Christianity and the theory of evolution, and the Church supports the idea of theistic evolution.
nWn5P TIL that Saudi Arabia has no minimum age for marriage, and it is perfectly legal to marry even an hour-old child