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TIL that over half of the US state names came from Native American terms/expressions

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Bgb5e TIL about Saint Guinefort, a legendary 13th-century French greyhound that received local veneration as a folk saint. Despite repeated prohibitions by the Catholic Church, the cult of this dog saint persisted for several centuries, with the last known visit to the Saint occurring in the 1940s
r8O1 TIL that in 1981, a Turkish man shot Pope John Paul II four times but didn’t kill him. After the Pope recovered, he visited the assassin in prison forgave him. The assassin was pardoned at the Pope’s request and 33 years after his crime, he visited Vatican City and laid flowers on the Pope’s tomb.
yQnWw TIL a grand total of 2121 nuclear tests were conducted by various countries around the world from 1945 with an estimated 515 MEGATONS of yield, but no nuclear winter ever recorded
N7Nd8 TIL Elvis Costello got permanently banned from Saturday Night Live for this song change during his performance.
LQwar TIL that among their other duties, US Marshalls are, in essence, bailiffs for US federal courthouses.