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TIL in 2006 FBI warned of KKK members in the police force
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TIL that most world maps exaggerate the size of Europe and the US. A more accurate map was drawn up in 1972, but is widely unknown of.
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TIL Empress Catherine I of Russia was a peasant girl captured as a war prize then transferred around until becoming a concubine to Peter the Great. She quickly knew how to best please him, so he married her, and later Romanovs are her descendants. After Peter's death she reigned in her own name.
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TIL most runners/shoes fail the basic stability tests. Told by Podiatrist and tested a wall of shoes at a sports shop.
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TIL that more people in Alabama are college football fans than are religious
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TIL about De Defectibus, a set of instructions about what to do in case anything goes wrong during the Sacrement of the Eucharist, including if rats steal the bread used or if the priest dies during mass.