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

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dVNE TIL marijuana is more common in Bhutan then grass (no pun). They use it for pig feed.
r5e4 TIL in the 1960’s oilmen would shoot flaming arrows to relight gas tower flames.
d8wkZ TIL that Titus Adams, aged 7, walked barefoot in the snow for half a mile to get help for his mom after she was thrown from her crashed pick-up truck. His courageous half-mile walk amid 23-degree weather saved his mother's life, authorities in Greeley, Colo., said.
KYJ84 TIL that the eerie "loon bird" call often heard in Hollywood movies is frequently used inaccurately to evoke a sense of wilderness, even in locations where loons don't exist.