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TIL Antipopes used to exist. Anyone who makes a significantly accepted competing claim to be the Pope is considered to be the Antipope. The last time this happened was in 1439.

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m1GLy TIL that before the invention of electric light, most Europeans had two phases of sleep, awakening late at night before sleeping again, called biphasic sleep
j6Vpv TIL Of Tirpitz, who was a ship pig in WW1. Following the German loss at the Battle of the Falkland Islands the SMS Dresden was scuttled but Tirpitz escaped, was rescued by the British Navy, and was adopted by the HMS Glasgow.
rRvad TIL of the “Desert of Maine,” a 40 acre tract of sand dunes caused by soil erosion from poor farming techniques. The area resembles a desert and has become a tourist attraction.
wOn7 TIL, Dr. James C. Munch testified in court, under oath, that he had smoked marijuana, and it turned him into a bat. Dr. Munch was the “official expert” on marijuana for the U.S. government from 1938 to 1962
nDeb TIL in 1913 Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky, Tito, and Freud were all living at the same time in Vienna, Austria