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

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xVA4b TIL of Peribsen, an early Egyptian pharaoh whose royal name identified him with the god Seth, rather than with Horus as tradition dictated (particularly strange, since the two gods were mortal enemies). Little is known of his reign, but he's conspicuously absent from later king lists.
e0E9n TIL that Motorola Razr is still being released after first being released in 2004
681l TIL When Hugh Hefner asked teenage model Barbie Benton out on a date, she was hesitant and said “I don’t know, I’ve never been out with anyone over 24”. The 42 year old Hefner replied, “That’s OK neither have I”.
69RB8 TIL about Georg Carl Tänzler, alias Count Carl von Cosel, a radiology tech that became so obsessed with a TB patient that he dig up her corpse and lived with it for seven years.
J1Pp8 TIL ‘Linguistics and Comparative Language’ degree holders have the highest unemployment rate (10.5%) for bachelors degree holders ages 30-54.