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TIL that Pope Francis owns a copy of Diary of a Wimpy Kid translated into Latin

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dN88 TIL that in Slovakia they have Christmas Carp that live in the family bathtub for a few days before they are eaten.
wv4E TIL that in 1978 the Canadian Museum of Nature fabricated a heist story to cover up the fact that they’d misplaced their Goodwill Moon Rock. The story was only given to one person: the 17 year old who’d delivered it 4 years earlier. He later found it in 2000 in a giant warehouse for museum exhibits.
JYN6Q Today I learned the St. Francis dam disaster was one of the most catastrophic civil engineering failures in American history.
OoQvY TIL the term "dark ages" do not refer to the period where science was shunned. It was a term coined by Francesco Petrarca in the 1300's, criticizing the lack of good literature following Rome's fall.
YXpP TIL that in 31 states a rapist can legally be granted child custody and visitation rights to the child fathered through rape.