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TIL that there are two Roman Catholic Churches in China - one acknowledges the Pope, the other the Communist Gov’t.

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PYVpe TIL 4000 British troops sacrificed themselves and distract the German advance long enough for the evacuation of Dunkirk to be a success.
x6X7g TIL of 'Denny', the only known individual whose parents were two different species of human. She lived ninety thousand years ago in central Asia, where a fragment of her bone was found in 2012. Her mother was a Neanderthal and her father was a Denisovan.
6O5X TIL of a kakistocracy: a state or country run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. The word was first coined by English author Thomas Love Peacock in 1829, but was rarely used until the 21st century.
WLy4 TIL you can Street View around the Old City in Jerusalem
ANaNx TIL Now That's Beautiful Like Earth, Saturn gets auroras at its poles. They're invisible to the unaided human eye, but the Cassini spacecraft and the Hubble Space Telescope captured footage of them using infrared and ultraviolet imaging tech.