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TIL cellphones are 10 times dirtier than toilet seats

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4XKbw TIL That after a two-year impasse with no new Pope, the Cardinals elected a hermit monk who sent them an angry letter, threatening them with divine judgement. He became Celestine V. He served for five months before implementing a law that allowed Popes to abdicate. He abdicated a week later.
j690E TIL that Ford's Theater, where Lincoln was killed, is not original, but a 100% re-creation on the original site.
4wya TIL that the coins thrown into Rome’s Trevi Fountain every year amount to around 3,000 Euro and are used to subsidise a supermarket for Rome’s needy.
DAGe TIL Serial Killer BTK worked for a home security company and installed systems in the homes of numerous citizens who were concerned about the murders he himself had committed.
8a7KP TIL 76 years ago yesterday, Dutch partisan Willem Arondeus was executed for bombing a public records office in Amsterdam, in an effort to prevent Nazi identification of local Jews. His last words were "Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards!"