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TIL The Inquisition never actually ended, is still ongoing, and is now known as "The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith"

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78g9X TIL the Harry Potter series is the best-selling book series of all-time with 600 million copies sold globally between the seven books.
7j1r TIL that San Bernardino, CA has a murder rate of 31 in 100,000 residents (Chicago, IL is 18 in 100,000 residents)
4dl5 TIL- There exists blueprints for an Euthanasia roller coaster designed to humanly kill people.
EGkp TIL Franklin D. Roosevelt’s image was put on the US dime, in part to honor his effort in founding the March of Dimes, a charity established to combat the spread of polio.
yJ5w TIL Spook Busters is a 1946 comedy film about a group of recent graduates who set up a company to exterminate ghosts in New York