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TIL that no Pope has recognized St. Patrick as a Saint

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rNeVW TIL A Chinese Woman Led the Largest and Most Successful Pirate Fleet in History
gMoJb TIL the first hostile aerial bombardment on U.S. soil happened in 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when white police forces took to the air to drop incendiary bombs and dynamite on the business district in the black neighborhood of Greenwood, known at the time as the "Black Wall Street."
Me4B TIL that Leonard Nimoy wrote an autobiography titled “I am Spock” … twenty years after his first autobiograpy “I am not Spock.”
KYDQR TIL astronaut John Young risked the U.S space mission Gemini 3 by smuggling a beef sandwich into space which was breaking up and creating crumbs and that could have caused damage to the spacecraft or the equipment.
mxKNE TIL countries have credit ratings. Obtaining a good sovereign credit rating is usually essential for developing countries that want access to funding in international bond markets.