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TIL The Vatican’s chief astronomer has stated there is no conflict between believing in God and in the possibility of extraterrestrial “brothers” perhaps more evolved than humans.

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EZYV TIL Alabama vs. Auburn is the only football game mandated by state law. If they don’t play, they don’t receive state funding.
l77jr TIL that about one in 2,000 people in the UK is a carrier of variant CJD, or "mad cow" disease, linked to eating contaminated beef. Relatively few people who catch the infectious agent develop symptoms and it's unknown if they can transmit it to others.
9wJr7 TIL that it's not a crime to escape prison in many countries
LQMQm TIL "Valentine's day" is named after Saint Valentine. He was a Christian bishop and a physician. He refused to treat his own fatally sick mother because she would not give up her belief in pagan God Jupiter and get baptized. The disease killed her
ADJdw TIL Charles Darwin predicted the existence of the giant hawkmoth 20 years earlier which was eventually discovered in 1882. He was 5,700 miles away then as he sat in his London office inspecting an unusual Star-of-Bethlehem orchid sent by a colleague.