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TIL that over the two millennium that the papacy has existed, six popes have had alleged same-sex relationships

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e0O74 TIL The US had to abandon construction of a border fort in New York State after realising that they'd accidentally built it on the Canadian side of the border. It was promptly nicknamed "Fort Blunder".
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