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TIL the Catholic Church owns a media company that publishes pornography and erotica

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VMxAD TIL the melody of the Dance of the Suger Plumb Fairy from the Nutcracker is played on an instrument called the celesta
X0ewk TIL South Australia Police used to have a mounted camel unit as there was no other effective way to patrol the vast central deserts. The last mounted camels were retired in 1951.
8exjP TIL that a new science called "Chaimatics" emerged in 1985 when experimenting with cAMP (for cell neural signal processing), which aims to model cells as molecular computes through Quantum Physics
ANMZB TIL that before he wrote The Music Man in 1957, Meredith Willson wrote It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas for Perry Como six years prior
jegp TIL Breyer’s has cheapened up on the ingredients they use so much that it is no longer “Ice Cream”. They have to call it “Frozen Dairy Dessert”.