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TIL The Vatican recognizes the 1982 apparition of the Virgin Mary in Rwanda, where she appeared to three young girls and foretold of the blood and horror of the 1994 genocide. The girls said they spent countless hours in conversations with Mary, who called herself Nyina wa Jambo, Mother of the Word

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NNkE TIL that Jon Huntsman Jr., our new Russian Ambassador, has extensive business ties to Russia through his father (John Huntsman Sr., Founder & Chairman of Huntsman Corp)
1RYO TIL Harvard once Expelled Ten Students for Being Gay in a Secret Kangaroo Court until Being Revealed in 2002
QoOE TIL Costco’s membership fees account for about 75% of its total earnings
4VYN TIL paper cuts hurt so bad because paper does more microscopic damage to the skin, and there often isn’t blood to protect nerves afterwards.
GYdWE TIL It is estimated that there are some 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) individual insects alive. That is a ratio of 200 million insects for every human.