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TIL beware of the dog signs have been normal for 2.000 years

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GArx7 TIL Greece lost the Greco-Turkish War due to political instability after its king was fatally bitten by a monkey in the royal zoo.
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Brvay TIL that St. Claire of Assisi, who died in 1253 A.D., was named the Patron Saint of Television by Pope Pius XII in 1958, based on an incident in which she claimed the moving image and sound of a Catholic Mass had been miraculously projected on the wall of her room when she was too sick to attend.