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TIL Domingo Ghirardelli was so upset that a Catholic priest did not do last rites for his daughter that he smuggled his family's bodies out of the local Catholic cemetery and moved them to a mausoleum decorated with a prominent Masonic emblem above the door.

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Enno TIL two psychologists, to study self-deception, created a provocative questionnaire with the assumption that a response of “no” to any of the questions would be a lie. Some of these questions include: “Have you ever wanted to rape or be raped by someone” “Have you ever enjoyed your bowel movements”
0dk4p TIL The way a survey is conducted can skew the results. However, there are still a lot of people that think chocolate milk comes from brown cows.
Y7M7A TIL: The Oldest Grocery Store in the Americas is in Quebec City
JYx94 TIL that to encourage population growth after WWII, the USSR imposed an extra 6% "childlessness" tax on men between 25-50 years old and married women between 20-45 years old, who did not have children.
VBorZ TIL cats and goats are among the most invasive species in the world