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TIL that the Vatican has a both men and women's football national team

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EgGnd TIL that Dick Gephardt is the only Leader of the House Democratic Caucus since 1929 to have never become Speaker of the House.
Yp8a7 TIL that leap days were actually put into use since 46 BC by Julius Caesar after him personally consulting Greek astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria for the fact that one year was slightly longer than 365 days and if they continued with the existing calendar, July would eventually fall on winter.
R7rJa TIL that in 2015, Prince voiced his dislike of record labels saying "Record contracts are just like — I'm gonna say the word – slavery." He concluded "I would tell any young artist ... don't sign." At the time he advocated seeing artists paid directly from streaming services, cutting out middlemen.
P1bye TIL Alfred Canning surveyed the 1900km Canning Stock Route through the Western Australian desert by capturing and chaining Indigenous people and force feeding them salt - coercing them to show the survey party the way to water. A Royal Commission exonerated the survey party of any wrongdoing.
Xk5E TIL Electric Eels are apex predators because none of the animals that can eat them want to get shocked