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TIL that Pope Clement VIII like coffee so much he baptized it so Christians could drink it without going to hell.

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jXwp TIL a man aspiring to become a lawyer was denied admission to the New York bar because his student debt exceeded $400,000. Five appellate judges concluded his payments had been too meager to date and thus he had not “established the character and general fitness requisite for an attorney”.
GYpm7 TIL that when Aaron Sorkin was asked why Tom Cruise and Demi Moore don't sleep together in A Few Good Men, Sorkin responded: "Women have purposes other than to sleep with Tom Cruise."
R5b7 TIL that The Vatican helps fund a large binocular telescope that has an instrument named L.U.C.I.F.E.R.
Orpe TIL that the Shift key is called that because it used to physically shift the entire typing apparatus in typewriters in order to access the capital letter on each typebar
Me51b TIL ABOUY The first large-scale battle fought by American soldiers in World War. And it happened in BELLA WOOD.