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TIL during a 2014 court deposition, the St. Louis archbishop says that he didn’t know in the 1980s whether it was illegal for priests to have sex with children.

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d5mj TIL that there were two New York brothers who were severe hoarders through the 1940s. One of them took care of the disabled other. The healthy brother set up booby traps all around the house to keep outsiders away, which led to the accidental death of both of them.
1abmD TIL Every Middle-American Baby Boomer has been Time's Person of the Year at least 3 times: 1966 (The Inheritor), 1969 (Middle Americans), and 2006 (You)
jN0xQ TIL Senator Bob Dole befriended a bar tender he often saw and later convinced him to take the LSAT exam and paid for it. The bar tender went on to get a perfect score and was accepted into Harvard Law School.
WkYpL TIL Iceland has the highest population percentage of pot smokers at 18.3% of their country smoking weed.
XQRR TIL Supercars are often abandoned in Dubai thanks strict debt laws. The cars are “left by expatriates and locals alike who flee in a hurry because they face crippling debts… hopping on the next flight out of there, never to return.”