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TIL that the "devil's advocate" was a title given in the Catholic Church. The Devil's Advocate's job was to argue against the canonization of any candidate.

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4k676 TIL that when Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation, journalist Giovanna Chirri was the first to break the news as she was the only one to understand Latin. She recalls: "He said it in Latin and I was panicking. I was short of breath, my legs were trembling, it was a reaction to shock."
D1y0D Today I learned that In South Korea, some stores package their bananas together in various ripeness stages so you can eat them over several days without them going brown. - They call them "one-a-day" bananas.
pYo48 TIL the reason that purple has traditionally been associated with royalty was because, in Ancient Rome, the only source of purple was milking and fermenting the liquid from a snail. It took 12,000 snails to produce 1 gram of dye! This made the Caesars declare it their exclusive color.
7rlJ7 TIL Wayne and Brent Gretzky hold the NHL record for most combined points by two brothers: 2,857 for Wayne and 4 for Brent.
M7e0W TIL That in 1517 7 people were burned at the stake by the Catholic Church for the crime of teaching their children the 10 commandments and the Lord's Prayer.