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TIL Stephen Colbert is a devout Catholic and Sunday school teacher.

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ep9An TIL the bonobo, a great ape, participate in tongue kissing, oral sex, and same-sex genital massaging, which has not been documented in any other species on Earth besides humans.
9YXK7 TIL the ice on a hockey rink is painted white to make it easier to see the puck
RDm1 TIL 34 years ago, Carl Sagan stated that the total energy picked up by all the radio telescopes on the entire planet in all of history is less than the energy of “a single snowflake hitting the ground”. The count is now around 2 snowflakes.
1BPX TIL the first Sci-fi novel was written in 2nd Century AD, and featured a group of sailors whose ship is caught in a waterspout and sent to the moon.
rRVL4 TIL that Omar Borkan Al Gala was asked to leave a cultural festival in Saudi Arabia because he was "too handsome". They feared female visitors would fall for him.