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TIL the internet weighs about the same as a strawberry
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TIL Bin Laden wrote his last and final will shortly after 9/11 and in it he urged his children to not join al-Qaeda and to not continue Jihad.
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TIL that the Vatican owns the building that houses Europe’s largest gay bathhouse. Cardinal Ivan Dias, who has called homosexuality “unnatural” and had argued that gays can be “cured”, lives in a 12-room apartment on the floor directly above the sauna.
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TIL in 2011, an Indiana woman was charged with feticide after a failed suicide attempt led to a miscarriage.
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TIL The German city of Konstanz was not bombed by the Allied Forces during World War II, because the city left all its lights on at night, and thus fooled the bombers into thinking it was actually part of Switzerland.
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TIL in Philadelphia, due to long-standing custom, one foot (12 inches) is not actually 12 inches for survey purposes. Each “Survey District” uses a different measure and a “foot” is usually longer than 12 inches.