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TIL the Catholic Church is the third largest landholder globally

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WaOd TIL that after the city of Rome was sacked in 410, the emperor Honorius was told that “Rome has perished”, which he interpreted to mean that his prized chicken “Rome” had died. When told it was the city instead, he breathed “a sigh of relief.”
dKp7 TIL that a muslim man who was shot in the days after 9/11 then forgave his attacker and fought to save the man from the death penalty. He lost that fight.
OlwX TIL that in 1970s, people in Cambodia were killed for being academics or for merely wearing eyeglasses.
pMLZ TIL that in Gilbertese, the official language of the Pacific Island nation of Kiribati, the word for dog (kamea) comes from the sound that the natives heard Europeans calling out to dogs (come here).
6E1y7 TIL That Antarctica was originally called Terra Australis until the nineteenth century, when the colonial authorities in Sydney removed the Dutch name from New Holland. Instead of inventing a new name to replace it, they took the name Australia from Antarctica leaving it nameless for eighty years.