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TIL Tom and Jerry committed suicide

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5YW9D TIL that Julius Caesar almost started his career as a priest, which would have forbidden him from touching a horse, sleeping one night outside of Rome, or looking upon an army
M7bNm TIL that there was a real-life Lord of the Flies-esque situation where school boys were stuck on a deserted island for 15 months but the boys banded together rather than feuding.
X05kE TIL that the landing craft used by the US during D-Day (and in much of WWII) were made mostly of plywood and initially designed for trappers, oil drillers and rum runners. The Navy started using them when they found the boats outperformed their own designs.
YJmx TIL the Vatican’s chief astonomer, Fr. George Coyne said, “Intelligent design isn’t science even though it pretends to be. If you want to teach it in schools, intelligent design should be taught when religion or cultural history is taught, not science.”
wokxY TIL that tattooing is illegal in Cuba