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TIL The adviser to Pope Benedict XVI on scandals of pedophile priests was busted for pedophilia.

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Mex6A TIL of Active Measures, a Soviet programme of political warfare used mainly to weaken the West by sowing discord amongst allies, fracture alliances in particular NATO and to tarnish the image of the United States in the eyes of the rest of the world.
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BrXVK TIL barns are painted red because old paint recipes contained ferrous oxide (rust). Rust was plentiful on farms and because it killed fungi and mosses that might grow on barns, and it was very effective as a sealant. It turned the mixture red in color.