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TIL that three Popes fathered sons who succeeded them in the Papacy.

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epywb TIL about the British Pet Massacre in which over 750,000 pets in Britain were euthanised by their owners during the early stages of WW2 to save food supplies.
m7PO TIL when Vermont adopted the Latin motto “Stella quarta decima fulgeat,” some locals complained that the state was honoring Mexicans and other Latinos.
yE4V TIL that exactly 700 actual beds were precisely laid out on a beach and used for the cover of Pink Floyd’s album, “A Momentary Lapse Of Reason”. None of them were cardboard cutouts.
x6E4w TIL About Cape Malays in South Africa. The descendants of enslaved and free Muslims from different parts of the world, specifically Indonesia (known then as the Dutch East Indies) and other SE Asian countries, who lived at the Cape during Dutch and British rule. There are 176,000 remaining.
69yL8 TIL the official name for Mexico is the "United Mexican States".