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TIL Joseph Goebbels seriously considered becoming a Catholic priest. He was aided in his earlier studies by a scholarship from the Albertus Magnus Society; Mangus was a German Dominican friar and Catholic Saint

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wLew7 TIL that over the course of a decade, 20 dismembered human feet have been found on beaches in the Pacific Northwest -- no other types of body parts have been found.
l7GaV TIL that astrophysicist Stephen Hawking once hosted a party but nobody showed up because he sent the invitations for the party only the day after, thus basically proving by experiment that time travel is not possible.
AeLl TIL that a furious riot that killed upwards of thirty thousand people in ancient Rome was started when a Roman soldier bared his rear and farted toward an audience of Jews celebrating Passover. This is also considered by many to be the first recorded “mooning”.
x6eb1 TIL the Japanese United Red Army conducted an internal purge of its members in 1972, killing 12, including 1 member killed for asking for tissues.
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