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TIL that Gambling on who the next pope will be is one of the very few things explicitly punishable by excommunication.

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KkxR TIL a New Zealand man built a working cruise missile for $5,000 USD using legally obtained parts mostly from eBay
xYLB TIL that a Spanish woman claimed ownership of the Sun in 2010, using a loophole in the Space Treaty of 1967. Spanish courts validated her claim and she proceeded to charge companies that use solar energy. In 2015 she sued ebay after her account was blocked for selling plots of land on the Sun.
wL9M6 TIL about "lonely negatives". These are words with common prefixes or suffixes such as "dis-", "in-", "un-", "-less" but they don't have positive counterparts such as the words "disgust", "disappoint", "reckless" - they don't have "gust", "appoint", or "reckful" as their opposites.
6R7Z TIL Following the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem Jews were once again allowed to live and practice their religion in Jerusalem for the first time since the Byzantines expelled them.
5Kmp TIL: People who are depressed perceive less visual contrast, literally causing them to see a less vivid more grey world.