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TIL the Pope said that the Big Bang is compatible with Catholicism…Pope Pius XII…in 1951.

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neNVo TIL in 1972, President Richard Nixon called Miami Dolphins head coach Don Shula before the Super Bowl and recommended he run a certain play. The week prior, he reportedly did the same thing with the Washington Redskins. Both teams ran the plays he suggested; both plays failed. Both teams lost.
4kVGR TIL that, unlike wolves, dogs in the wild are not "pack animals." Free-ranging dogs form "loose, transitory associations" instead of packs, drawn together by a scarce resource such as food, and then go their separate ways.
XK08 TIL A 12 year old kid lied to his friends about being Jay Leno’s nephew. He wrote Leno who then dropped him off at school at his request.
QOO9 TIL there used to be an island called “Slut’s Bush” off the coast of Chatham, Massachusetts. The island sank under the ocean by the 1800s.
M7X1B TIL beetroot juice was actually used as red hair dye in the 16th century, particularly by Victorians.