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TIL Creed Bratton from The Office performs his own rendition of the show's theme song at his concerts

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4kk5 TIL Pope Benedict VIII condemned cats as evil and had them burned by the thousands. This led to an explosion of the rat population and attributed to the effects of the Black Death
1an18 TIL that green olives and black olives are the same fruit, the green ones being picked before ripening and black ones let to ripen on the tree.
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