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TIL that the Catholic Church forbade people with epilepsy from becoming ordained as priests, all the way until the mid-1980s, due to superstition about evil influences

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9wVL6 TIL that humans are the only animals that have chins
5Vo4R TIL that Manute Bol killed a lion as a young herdsman in Sudan
WkDN TIL that the United States dropped from 17th to 47th place, in the Press Freedom Index since 2002.
BrrbK TIL airbags were invented in 1952 when an engineer tried to stop his young daughter from smashing into the dashboard during an accident.
neNPB TIL when you die in Super Mario Bros. you can hold down the A button while you hit Start to continue from the the world where you left off.