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TIL Catholic Priests molesting children was such a problem in the 20th Century, in 1962 the church issued an instruction called “Crimen Sollicitationis”, reiterating another instruction issued in 1922, threatening excommunication for any clergy or victim that made a case public

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9BaD TIL 6 months before the Challenger disaster a lone engineer told his superiors about the O-Ring problem and warned the result “would be a catastrophe of the highest order - loss of human life”.
Y7gwZ TIL 80% of Americans and one-third of humanity can’t see the milky way at night
0JVM TIL when Schwarzenegger was governor of California, he never lived in Sacramento. Instead he commuted 3 hours everyday… by private jet.
NeZb TIL that Johnnie Walker, ironically, did not drink.
69Rvl TIL that regenerated lung tissue has been implanted into living rats, which has helped to make progress in lung disease treatments. Yale said "When implanted into rats for short intervals of time (45-120 minutes), the engineered lungs exchanged oxygen and carbon dioxide similarly to natural lungs."