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TIL Piggly Wiggly was the world’s first supermarket

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woA8 Til the name “Jesus” is the result of several incorrect translations of “Yeshua”.
Q8JL TIL that dogs years are not 7:1 to human years, as it is generally thought.
9wYZD TIL The largest landowner in the world is the Catholic Church