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TIL the Catholic Church requires that a person always follow their conscience, even when it is in disagreement with Church teaching

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9wxVQ TiL the only living survivors of the sinking of the Tirpitz are trees - and they'll happily tell you what they saw.
7Z9Z TIL your whole body aches when you have the flu because your immune system dilates all of your blood vessels and makes your muscles constantly contract
8BVL TIL there is a 6-year high school in Chicago where students graduate with an associate’s degree on top of a high school diploma, along with a $40,000+ job opportunity at IBM.
jMBR TIL scientists have created a language called Lincos designed for communicating with alien civilizations, should the need ever arise.
e0814 TIL there exists a Linguistic Diversity Index: the probability [0-1] that 2 people selected from at random will have different mother tongues. Papua New Guinea comes first with a score of 0.988 as it has over 820 indigenous languages. Some other scores ~ India: 0.914, USA: 0.333, UK: 0.154