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TIL That when the Pope dies, he is smacked in the head with a gilded silver hammer to make sure he is dead.

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xno TIL: A mysterious man placed dozens of tiles on roads all over the Northeastern US and even South America over a period of 20 years. They contain the boggling message: “TOYNBEE IDEA IN MOViE’ 2001 RESURRECT DEAD ON PLANET JUPITER.”
nWXYY TIL a family in the US found their son - conceived via IVF - was not theirs after taking an at-home ancestry test. The mistake was concluded to be human error and the boy now sees both families
noEY TIL that in 2004, a F-16 accidentally strafed a New Jersey school with cannon fire on a training mission.
xMl1 TIL that worldwide, more than one in every ten marriages is between first and second cousins.
loxgV TIL that in 1873 a man defrauded the residents of Alta, Utah out of $2,500 by claiming to be able to raise the dead. They paid him the money NOT to raise anybody. The story was later adapted into "The Twilight Zone" episode "Mr. Garrity and the graves."