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TIL that there is a convent in Philadelphia where the habits of the nuns are bright pink to symbolize the joy of the Holy Spirit

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E15Rx TIL Tom Cruise's real name is 'Thomas Mapother'
mx84O A 23-year-old man fell into Yellowstone Park's hot spring and completely dissolved within a day. The waters of the hot spring aren't just incredibly hot, but very acidic too. This is due to one of the largest magma chambers in the world beneath the spring.
l7KQV TIL about Malbolge, a programming language designed to be nearly impossible to use. It took 2 years for the first program to appear and its author has never written a program with it.
69yXZ TIL Vangelis, who did the "Chariots of Fire" soundtrack, composed nearly 12 hours of music to accompany microneurosurgery training tapes by his friend, Dr. Stergios Tegos.
xV8MD TIL Agnes Waterhouse was the first woman executed for witchcraft in England (1566). She was accused of turning her talking cat into a toad, which then turned into a dog with horns and threatened her neighbor with a knife. She denied it, but was found guilty and hung.