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TIL that the number of priests has been down 60% in the last 50 years leaving 3500 churches without one

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YBdB TIL that there is a guy in Maine that is 66 and still lives in an Iron lung from polio he contracted when he was 7 years old.
6E6yY TIL American Moose and European Elk are the same species and are only named differently due to language errors.
9w546 TIL "quiet storm" is a genre of R&B from the 1970s to the 1990s described as melodically soulful, sensuous and pensive, and designed for late-night listening.
R77Pw TIL Craig Gillespie, director of the upcoming Tonya Harding biopic "I, Tonya" also directed a Campbell's Soup commercial from the early 1990s starring Nancy Kerrigan
jaOR TIL that famous philosopher Bertrand Russell, while aboard a fight in Norway, asked the flight crew to seat him in the smoking section, claiming that “If I cannot smoke, I should die.” The plane later crash landed into a bay, drowning everybody in the non-smoking section.