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TIL members of Westboro Baptist Church have been specifically banned from entering Canada for hate speech.

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Oo1e7 TIL Pope John XII died during an aduterous affair
kJAnE TIL Guinness was not suitable for vegetarians until 2018
Oae4 TIL In 2006, The FBI planted an informant in a Southern California mosque who pretended to be a radical Muslim and the Muslims at the mosque reported him to the FBI.
neE47 TIL that in 2003, Dutchman Kees Moeliker won the Ig Nobel Prize for Biology after writing a paper on "the first case of homosexual necrophilia [by a mallard]" after watching a duck die after crashing into his window, only for its corpse to be "raped almost continually for 75 mins" by another duck.
KOB1a TIL It was only in 2015 that a videographer captured for the first time footage of a blue whale calf breastfeeding