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TIL The communion bread market has been cornered, outcompeting nuns at monasteries

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KP0J TIL cats “directly register”, meaning that while walking, their back paws land in the same spot as their front paws, which minimizes noise and visible tracks.
D5BJ TIL Director Victor Fleming took 17 year old Judy Garland aside and slapped her in the face while telling her ‘Now darling, this is serious" because she couldn’t stop laughing during the scene where Dorothy meets the Lion in “The Wizard of Oz”
M7Qk8 TIL the CIA has it's own museum which is closed to members of the public. The exhibitions include Saddam Hussein's leather jacket and the gun found with Osama Bin Laden when he was killed.
OwRL TIL at birth Muhammad Ali was named for Cassius Clay, a Kentucky Congressman of the 19th century who fought to abolish slavery and was named by Lincoln as the US Ambassador to Russia where he gained Russian support for the Union.
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