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TIL that in the early medieval Catholic Church, priests accused of pedophilia would be publicly beaten, have their heads shaven, and then be bound in chains and imprisoned.

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lokZ7 TIL that there was a full movie theater with a bar, concessions, seats, and movie screen in an underground catacomb of Paris. (
4kadR TIL that Lise Meittner, the co-discoverer of nuclear fission, never won the Nobel Prize. She was nominated 48 times in both Physics and Chemistry.
M7RX0 TIL Feral cats with a clipped ear are part of a Trap-Neuter-Return program
nPyb TIL One of the first items sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer. When eBay creator, Pierre Omidyar, emailed the person who bought the broken laser pointer for $14.83 ($22.40 today) to make sure he knew it was broken, the man told him “I’m a collector of broken laser pointers.”
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