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

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e0EMJ TIL about the Phytosaurs, an order of reptiles that went extinct at the end of the Triassic. Despite not being closely related, they looked and behaved very similarly to modern crocodilians, in a remarkable example of convergent evolution.
78xGL TIL that the Wendel Family was an eccentric and reclusive New York real estate dynasty in the 19th and early 20th centuries. They wore outdated Victorian clothing and refused to install modern utilities. Ella, the last surviving sibling, was famous for her many poodles, all named Toby.
loOXr TIL that Cuban orchestras tune their string instruments to A = 336hz, substantially lower than the conventional A = 440hz, as looser strings are less prone to breaking and requiring expensive replacements.
l7YGN TIL almost no palm trees are native to Southern California. They were used as a marketing ploy to transform Los Angeles for a cow town to “semi-tropical”
QN0y9 TIL Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, one of the most widely known spiritual and philosophical classic books by the Roman emperor, was not intended to be a book but a personal diary, which was carried out from AD 171 to the present day.