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TIL that the catholic church reclassified beavers as fish so they can be eaten during lent

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M7ENA TIL Christian saint Josaphat is a Christianized version of the story of Siddhartha Gautama, who became the Buddha.
5Yen9 TIL that while in Sharon Springs, Theodore Roosevelt was approached by a 12-year-old girl who asked if he would like to have a badger. Expecting to humor her, he agreed, and the girl came back with a 2-week-old badger. President Roosevelt named him Josiah and he became one of the presidential pets.
v14P4 TIL in 2011 a British think tank conducted a study on 450,000 followers of 14 European far-right organizations on Facebook and found that 2/3 were aged under 30 and that 3/4 were male and more likely than average to be unemployed.
6wYw TIL there’s a script floating around Hollywood for a show called Time Jack, about a guy who, every time he masturbates, he travels through time. If he hates the time, he whacks off and he’s gone. If he loves it, he can stay—as long as he doesn’t masturbate.
rRO5y TIL of Percy Terry, an American amateur researcher who tried to invent a bulletproof ointment in 1915. He tested his invention on himself by shooting his own face, resulting in a punctured cheek and a second try by shooting his own head with a gun which resulted in his death