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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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epPEg Today I learned exactly what it meant when someone in the 1950's said "The rabbit died" 🥺🥺🥺 Thankfully that wouldn't make it today.
X0M7E TIL of the Petticoat Affair, where the wives of POTUS Andrew Jackson's Cabinet conspired to socially ostracise the War Secretary's wife due to a controversy around her marriage. This rattled and led to the resignation of the entire cabinet.
K4a6 TIL: Dogs Can Smell Parts Per Trillion. A Human Equivalent Would Be Perfect Vision Up To THREE THOUSAND Miles Away.
5YjKP TIL that while productions of the ballet Swan Lake mostly use the original coreography, almost every version staged contains a different ending, ranging from very romantic to darkly tragic
WVb8 TIL that in 1998 a 24 year-old Mexican peed on the Arc de Triomphe, extinguishing the eternal flame that had been burning since 1921 in honor to the fallen in WWI.