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TIL that in 2001, during the canonization process of Mother Teresa, the Catholic Church called upon prominent atheist Christopher Hitchens to formally challenge her sainthood before them.

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QNVOM TIL that theday after the Kent State shootings, A Gallup poll found that 58% of Americans believed the students were responsible for their own deaths, while only 11% blamed the Guard.
a8VGN TIL that Mattiedna Johnson, born to Mississippi sharecroppers in 1918, used techniques she’d used to make things like butter, jam and soap on her childhood farm to develop techniques to capture and preserve molds for research that eventually helped in the development of drugs to fight scarlet fever.
4kX85 TIL Pavlov's dog experiment was widely misunderstood because of mistranslation and misconstruction. Pavlov never used a bell to condition dogs to salivate, because a bell was an imprecise control. Instead he used tones, duration of tones and electric shock to study physiological reflexes.
wGbM TIL That President Kennedy promised to “end housing discrimination with a stroke of the pen” when he got in to office; when he didn’t do so, Civil Rights groups sent thousands of pens to the White House in protest.
ZpPZY TIL that the fish California grunion lay eggs on sandy beach where they hatch after a fortnight. Grunion runs are graded from 1-5, depending on the number of fish that arrive, the length of the run and how long they mate for. It's impossible to walk on a beach with W5 run without stepping on fish.