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TIL the Catholic Church is the largest non-governmental provider of health services in the world.

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p4oZ TIL that Les Stroud claims he may have encountered a “bigfoot” on two occasions while filming Survivorman
X8J6 TIL The current president of Harvard, Drew Gilpin Faust, wrote a letter to President Eisenhower asking him to desegregate schools when she was 9-years-old.
5YEQP TIL about the Great fire of Meireki that burned down 60-70% of Edo(now Tokyo) and killed 100,000 residents in 1657
6ENJ TIL that President G.W. Bush’s great, great, great, great grandfather Obadiah Newcomb Bush was vice president of the American Anti-Slavery Society, supported the Underground Railroad, and petitioned the New York State Legislature to secede from the Union in a protest against slavery.
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