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TIL 18 and 19 year olds are technically teenagers

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PYGaE TIL the Spanish Inquisition was devoid of its own budget, meaning it depended exclusively on the confiscation of the goods of the denounced. Due to this organization and possibility of abuse, someone wrote a letter to the king saying of the inquisitors "if they do not burn they do not eat".
WpJ8 TIL Nestlé is taking 265 million litres of fresh Canadian water every year to bottle and sell off around the world – and it does not pay a penny.
x66AB TIL a Sitting US Senator Was Killed During the Civil War While Commanding Troops
87YP TIL a third of the human population sneezes when they look at the sun
Mo7A TIL that most maps are lying to you about how big Africa really is. It’s so big that it can hold the US, Mexico, China, Western Europe and most of India.