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TIL that U.K. Kids Spend Less Time Outside than Prison Inmates
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TIL that because earthquakes kept destroying Spanish-built buildings like churches, houses, and settlements in Colonial era Philippines, a new architectural style was created solely to withstand the tremors——Earthquake Baroque.
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TIL that director Nicholas Ray claimed his marriage with his wife Gloria Grahame ended after he found her in bed with his 13 year old son Tony from a previous marriage. Gloria married Tony a decade later.
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TIL that after the death of Pope Julius II, (the militaristic "warrior pope" who emulated Caesar) the scholar Erasmus wrote a satirical dialogue in which the pope is denied entrance at the gates of heaven, ending with him planning to invade Paradise using the same tactics he applied when alive.
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TIL that a veterinarian is often the first to see signs of domestic and child abuse
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TIL Golf was banned in England in 1457 because it was considered a distraction from the serious pursuit of archery.