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TIL, Sub-Saharan African countries have the largest percent of male nurses in the world.

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aeg9 TIL that if a Catholic priest reveals anything someone confessed to him for any reason at all, he is automatically excommunicated from the Catholic Church and can only be forgiven by the Pope.
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ANmR4 TIL Sergio Leone raised $100m to produce & direct a movie set during the Siege of Leningrad with Robert De Niro playing an American journalist inside the city. It would have been the industry’s first-ever $100m production, but Leone passed away 48 hours before signing a contract to film on location.
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