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QK6p TIL 30 percent of Mongolians still live a nomadic lifestyle.
xK0b TIL Before the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther confessed for hours at a time. Annoyed, the priest told him “If you’re going to confess so much, why don’t you go do something worth confessing? Kill your mother or father! Commit adultery! Quit coming in here with such flummery and fake sins.“
b6D0j TIL of the eccentric Lord Longford who attempted to get parole for serial killer Myra Hindley, and who visited strip clubs in the 1970’s to compile a report on them. Longford nonetheless did acts of kindness, such as visiting a man who was dying of AIDS and had been abandoned by his family.
rNprd TIL that during the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, “As long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right.”
GWV4 TIL that a lady had a stroke and lost movement in her left arm because of a hickey.