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TIL “hocus pocus” may have been coined by Protestants to mock the Catholic transubstantiation incantation used to turn bread and wine into flesh and blood, “hoc est corpus.”

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mAMy TIL there’s a TV show in iceland called “Keeping up with the Kattarshians”. It’s a 24 hour live broadcast of cats in a tiny model house.
4XR9a TIL that Indonesians are the most charitable people in the world. "Despite having a steady economy and labor force, 40 percent of the country lives below the poverty line, making their number one ranking even more impressive and inspiring."
wrvo TIL: Australia had a government shutdown once. In the end, the queen fired the Prime Minister and the entire Australian Parliament.
Ok71 TIL: The elementary school game, “Heads Up, Seven Up,” was a tool used by educators to determine students that were more likely to cheat. If you weren’t very good chances are you were more honest.
kJ5rE TIL of Dr. Jessie Lazear, an American physician who studied yellow fever under the famous Dr. Walter Reed. He allowed himself to be bitten by an infected mosquito, and died of the disease himself 17 days later, confirming how the disease was spread. His sacrifice saved millions.