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TIL that Paris Metro trains drive on the right rather than the left and its tunnels are narrower than main-line ones in order to prevent it from being absorbed into the national railway network

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4Re5 TIL the term “Devil’s Advocate” comes from the historical position of “Promoter of the Faith”, a canon lawyer who would argue against the Canonisation of a Saint.
R7pg4 TIL a Saudi man, who was then the heaviest person alive and the second heaviest person ever recorded at 1340lbs (610kg) in 2013, was ordered by his King to lose weight. He then lost 1195lbs, and in 2017, weighed just 150lbs(68kg).
O8p1 TIL that in 2003, American soldiers in Iraq vandalized the 6,000 year old Sumerian city of Ur by spraypainting “Semper Fe” on its walls. No response was made by the US government to the allegations.
5YdQD TIL that when dinner forks were introduced to Europe in the late Middle Ages, they were considered to be a tool of the Devil and were thus banned by the Catholic Church
KOX74 TIL that heavy metal band Black Sabbath started as a blues band called Earth, but changed their name after seeing the Boris Karloff horror film "Black Sabbath". They liked "that people paid money to be frightened".