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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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neoYd TIL: Since all the longitude lines meet in Antarctica, the South Pole has no specific time zone. Many stations use the time of the country they are owned by, and many areas have no time zone since nothing is decided and there are not even any temporary settlements with any clocks.
78E6b TIL: There is a pastry known as Cassatella di sant'Agata, or as translated, Saint Agatha's Breasts. It was named after Agatha who was tortured by having her breasts cut off. They are round shaped sweets made with sponge cake, soaked in rosolio, and filled with cheese, chocolate, and candied fruit.
rM4W TIL of the French essayist and grammarian Dominique Bouhours, whose dying words were “I am about to - or I am going to - die: either expression is correct.”
kJrEB TIL saturation divers have to live weeks in a pressurized environment
XEYLX TIL outside the academic space Dmitry Mendeleev (creator of Periodic table of elements) was a man of unusual interests and the widest professional knowledge. It’s hard to count them all. He was a chemist, physicist, economist, meteorologist, technologist, geologist, meteorologist, pedagogue, aviator