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VM0Bm TIL that Scotland has an official contingency plan in case they ever catch the Loch Ness Monster.
m7QM TIL that East Germany created its own cola drink. Vita-Cola’s sales almost disappeared after the fall of the Berlin Wall brought Coke and Pepsi into the East. It is still the most popular cola in Thuringia, making the German state one of the few places in the world where Coca-Cola is not the leader.
nWdOY TIL the youngest pope in history, Pope Benedict IX, was about 14 when first elected. He is the only person to have been Pope more than once, and the only person ever accused of selling the papacy.
avnA TIL that you will need a telescope 50 times the size of the Hubble to see objects left by humans on the moon. Even if we use the Hubble Space Telescope to look at the moon, a football stadium sized object would appear as only one pixel.
8exEG TIL the derogatory term of "Indians" for indigenous people came from Christopher Columbus thinking America was "The Indies"