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TIL the Devil's Advocate used to be an official position in the Catholic Church whose job was to find evidence against a saint candidate.

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8eLga TIL the so called “Blue Zones” of longevity are likely just regions rife with clerical errors and pension fraud
epmYL TIL that NASA bombed the moon in 2010
8ewVK TIL Dolphin moms use ‘baby talk’ with their newborns
yQPd8 TIL that the stripes you see on a tiger's fur also appear on their skin beneath. These stripes are similar to fingerprints, in that no two tigers have the same pattern.
DQ1P TIL a cargo ship, abandoned by it’s crew in Alaska in 1931 after being trapped in pack ice, drifted empty near Alaska for nearly forty years, and may still be afloat somewhere on the ocean.