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TIL capital punishment was legal in the Vatican from its formation in 1929 to 1969, but it was never carried because it only applied for attempts to assassinate the Pope and there were none in this period.

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5Y9rn TIL that female spies knit coded messages into scarves to pass on secret information during WWII
KOa4B TIL British nuclear weapons were armed with only a bike lock key until the mid 90's.
1gLD TIL that there are dead drops (flash drives embedded in a wall) in random areas around the world for sharing anonymous information with whoever has found them.
n6w7 TIL a 2012 study by Tampere University of Technology found that, with energy efficiency improvements, a single household could decrease its energy consumption by more than 40%
M77Gb TIL that cancer in heart cells is extremely rare, or unlikely to occur due to the cell division mechanism in a heart's muscle cells