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TIL the catacombs of Paris hold the remains of over 6 million people.

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0wLx1 TIL, Saint Edith Stein was a Jewish convert to Roman Catholicism. In 1942, she became a prisoner of the Nazis. A dutch official offered her escape from Auschwitz but she refused, preferring to "share in the fate of her brothers and sisters".
oBpEK TIL the word 'propaganda' derives from a committee of Catholic cardinals set up in 1622 by Pope Gregory XV, the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide (the Sacred College for Propagating the Faith), called Propaganda for short. It's aim was to spread the Catholic faith in non-Catholic countries.
ADBk7 TIL that ladybugs can bite.
Me6g8 TIL 2% of scientists admitted to falsifying, fabricating, or modifying data at least once
XnVk TIL There’s a bunch of water under the Earth’s surface, more than we thought, and there’s 4 Times as much water on our planet than most people are aware of.