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TIL For the last fifty years of her life, Mother Teresa had lost her faith. In private letters to friends and confessors she acknowledged repeatedly that she no longer felt the presence of God in her life at all, and once described her pretense at faith as “hypocrisy”.

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GAgGE TIL about childhood dementia. It is a result of progressive brain damage and can be caused by over 70 rare genetic disorders. 700,000 children are estimated to be living with some form of childhood dementia today. 48,300 children die from childhood dementia each year.
6E1nQ TIL 22-yr-old Canadian man John McCue took it upon himself to fill potholes with the sign: "I filled the potholes. Pay me instead of your taxes." Drivers gave him cash, coffee and joints for filling in potholes.
BrW0b TIL Walt Disney wasn’t cryogenically frozen. He was cremated and his ashes interred at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. The rumor that he wanted to be frozen was started in 1972 by the president of the California Cryogenics Society and has since been denied by Disney’s family.
R5k9 TIL many shelters won’t allow black cats to be adopted around Halloween, for fear that they may be sacrificed or tortured
KOpZ9 TIL Jason Padgett was hit in the head after a violent attack in 2002, this attack in turn made him acquire Savant Syndrome, which gave his extremely good math skills and a different view in the world, with water looking like flowing lines as opposed to the smoothness most of us see.