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TIL that you cannot become an ordained Catholic priest if, among other things, you do not have hands or are gluten intolerant.

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OYag T.I.L. that Clowns International, the oldest clown registry in the world, keeps a gallery of eggs painted with individual member’s makeup patterns. Whenever a member dies, their egg is smashed. It works as a form of copyright.
j6x1n TIL about parfilage, a fashionable pastime among upper class ladies in 18th century France in which they would painstakingly destroy textile goods, thread by thread in a deliberate reversal of normal "women's work", sometimes even having things made specifically for that purpose
BrGye TIL that Hydrochloric acid tastes like Vinegar, Battery Acid, and Blood mixed together.
PNdV TIL that the Hudson Bay region of Canada has been found to have less gravity than the rest of the Earth.
VMQEB TIL that the Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972-1981, Kurt Waldheim, had been a Nazi officer during WWII. In 1986 it was discovered Jews had routinely been shot near his office during the war. This revelation got him a travel ban from the US.