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TIL The Vatican is no longer exempt from all property taxes in Italy.

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Y7eXr TIL WW2 caused some 70-85 million deaths, from Germany’s invasion of Poland to Japan’s surrender (Sept 1, 1939-Sept 2, 1945). On average, that’s about: 12,000,000 lives yearly, 972,000 per month, 32,000 every day, 1,330 per hour & 22 each minute. So, a life every 3 seconds, constantly, for 6 years…
o4J8 TIL cats kill between 8.3 billion and 24.4 billion birds and mammals each year and have been blamed for the global extinction of 33 species.
8aAlK TIL that a British bomb detection dog named Theo died from stress a few hours after seeing his handler get shot. The pair had set a record for bomb detection, and the dog was posthumously awarded an honour equivalent to the Victoria Cross.
rR6B1 TIL that the office Treasurer of the United States has been held by women since 1949
W74eL TIL Whales and dolphins, who still retain vestigial hip bones, evolved from land-dwelling even-toed ungulates (like hippos, deer, and camels) around 50 million years ago.