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TIL from 1591 to 1869, the Catholic Church considered abortion to be permissible before the fetus “formed” (defined as the 116th day of pregnancy).

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awMQ0 TIL that U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower had a speech prepared in the event that the 1944 D-Day invasion failed. In the speech he takes full responsibility for the failure of the operation.
ZnKo TIL Chinua Achebe’s novel “Things Fall Apart” has been described as “the first novel in English which spoke from the interior of the African character, rather than portraying the African as an exotic, as the white man would see him”
W7OV8 TIL Jack Black was the offical rat catcher for Queen Victoria and bred rats to sell them as pets
pMYQ TIL In order for NASA to have constant communication with the Skylab space station in the 70’s, 8 specially outfitted planes with satellites flew around around the Earth. Each plane would take turns transmitting data until it was out of reach.
0MkA TIL that GOD killed over 2,800,000 in the bible. Satan killed 10.