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TIL that bishops who are over 80-years-old cannot participate in electing a new Pope

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1xrO TIL Pope Alexander VI ordered the destruction of all art depicting a Semitic Jesus and commissioned a number of paintings depicting a Caucasian Jesus. His son, Cesare Borgia, was the model for these paintings. Thus, the nastiest of all the Borgias, became the iconic Caucasian Jesus.
d8Joj TIL there are more national football teams affiliated with FIFA (211) than there are UN member nations (193).
nQrB Til that Matthew McConaughey replaced Owen Wilson in ‘Tropic Thunder’ after Wilson’s battle with depression and attempt at suicide by overdosing and slitting his wrists
JVeV TIL that part of Pablo Escobars surrender deal was that he would serve his sentence in his own prison, guarded by his own guards. The prison also had a soccer field, a bar, a jacuzzi, and a waterfall amongst many other things.
1YKd TIL that when it was revealed that Australia’s tallest peak Mount Kościuszko was actually lower than that of neighboring Mount Townsend by about 100 feet, the Australian government switched the two peaks’ names