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TIL that the Catholic Church in USA and Europe outsources its Mass Intention requests to India

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alQy TIL that while working on Star Wars TFA, Carrie Fisher gave Daisy Ridley this piece of advice: “you should fight for your outfit. Don’t be a slave like I was.”
rjj4 TIL of Ewen Cameron, who in the the 50s ran experiments on humans which involved giving several electric shocks a week, taping blacked out football helmets to their heads and playing repetitive messages in their ears for months at a time. Some patients apparently forgot who they were and how to talk
Brn0b TIL about Blue Royal and her mother used jake as a means of income and support but he came to the realization he's being used, now mom and daughter teamed up with a conspiracy
9wWXX TIL 13-year-old BlueScuti became the first human to reach the "kill screen" for the NES version of Tetris after a 40-minute 1,511 line performance. And until just a few years ago, the Tetris community at large had assumed that it was functionally impossible for someone to get much past 290 lines.
9Y4ZM TIL about pOCD, or pedophilia OCD in which a person gets high anxiety from being around or thinking of children for fear of being sexually attracted to them, despite having no actual attraction or urges.