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TIL the Pope was not officially declared infallible until the 1st Vatican Council in 1870

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LWvZ TIL, A man made a song using a picture of birds he took on a telephone wire, the result is quite amazing
Lkx0Q TIL that the "boy [who] stood on the burning deck" was Giocante Casabianca - a brave little boy on on board the burning L'Orient, who refused to leave his post without his father's orders. He didn't know that his father was already dead.
lode5 TIL a researcher recorded more than 100 animal handlers and found it's pretty much universal -- regardless of the language spoken or the animal being handled -- that humans use short, repeated sounds to get an animal to go or speed up, and long, slow sounds to get an animal to stop or slow down.
6EyeJ TIL the Artugrul from turkish akes place in the 13th century, and put the Kayi flags all over the world
ne5X7 TIL about the business of “Adversary Air Support” in which a contractor has their own fleet of fighter jets that fly against U.S. military fighter pilots, replicating aerial threats from potential enemy nations.