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TIL Catholic Church has a birthday. Pentecost is the birthday of the Catholic Church.

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V0Bk TIL the first Twinkies were made with banana filling and only lasted two days. A banana shortage and expensive replenishment logistics led to a change in the recipe.
WaA8 TIL when waiters gave mints w/their patrons’ check, their tips increased by 3%. If waiters personally handed 2mints per patron w/check, their tips increased by 14%. Their tips increased by 21% if they handed the mints directly to the patrons w/check, and then came back with more mints later.
4lVR TIL: As we age, we perceive time faster because “adulthood is accompanied by fewer and fewer memorable events” (firsts), our biological clocks slows down along with a few other affecting factors
e0114 Today I learned that the CIA secretly owned a Swiss company called Crypto AG that maintained offices all over the world and sold products with secret backdoors for the US government and key allies.
nerP7 TIL Wyoming was the first state to grant women suffrage, because Republicans were in favor of former slaves’ rights to vote, and Democrats hoped that if they allowed women the right to vote, they would stay faithful to the party that granted them that right.