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TIL There are insurance companies that offer abuse and molestation insurance for churches.

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5Y49B TIL Phantosmia is a condition that causes you to smell odors that aren't actually present. When this happens, it's sometimes called an olfactory hallucination.
v1rnr TIL about Rolando Sanchez, a former general surgeon from Tampa, FL. who in 1995, amputated the wrong leg of a diabetic patient (claiming it to be a clerical error) and, just 5 months later, unnecessarily removed the big toe of another patient during a debridement procedure on her right foot.
Kgp6 TIL that the Netherlands sends 20,000 tulips anually to Canada in thanks for all the aid they provided in WWII
rNAX0 TIL about the US WWII unit known as the “Ghost Army,” a tactical deception unit made of ~1000 soldiers. They used visual, sonic, and radio deception to fool German forces into thinking they had 30,000 soldiers with them.
LkRBr TIL of the Bulwer-Lyton fiction contest, in which entrants are invited "to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels"