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TIL that Mormon missionaries are no longer allowed to come to Switzerland

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xVxyD TIL in 1714, 2 gunships fought for 14 hours, before one ran out of ammunition. The captain messaged his opponent, thanking him for a fine duel, and asking for more ammunition, so that the fight could continue. His opponent refused, but they then agreed to sail away in opposite directions.
9Y7wp TIL that Bill Cosby was added to the NAACP’s Image Awards Hall of Fame in 2006 for being a “true humanitarian and role model.”
d8Qn8 TIL that Linus Torvalds, the creator and principal developer of Linux, first met his wife Tove while running introductory computer laboratory exercises for students in 1993. He instructed the course attendees to send him an e-mail as a test, to which Tove responded with an e-mail asking for a date
b087 TIL Pope Francis is the first Jesuit Pope, the first Pope from the America’s, the first Pope from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first Non-European Pope in 1,272 years. I think he is also the first Pope to be a nightclub bouncer.
VBkVB TIL pigeons can be trained to diagnose cancer from biopsy images with the same accuracy as medical pathologists