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

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8ea5G TIL In England there are original thatched rooves, having not been replaced, dating back to the 14th Century.
Anyx TIL a study was made because of a bank robber who robbed a bank while having lemon juice on his face thinking it will make him invisible like invisible ink, that concluded that low-ability individuals suffer from illusory superiority.
DQMJp TIL from the 1970s to 1990s, the South African apartheid government conducted "Project Coast," a program where they investigated using recreational drugs, snake venom, pheromones, bacteria, viruses, heavy metals, pesticides, poisons, and more as biological weapons for both war and crowd control.
Y7x7Z TIL that FDR led an insurgency against NY's Tammany Hall machine when he became state senator in 1910, costing him the US Senate primary in 1914. Only after he became NY Governor in 1928 could he bring corruption investigations, ending Tammany's more than a century of control over the NY Dem Party.
Gb94 TIL Christopher Walken has only ever been pulled over on the freeway once. Christopher questioned whether the plain clothes officer was indeed an officer, who replied with “no” and simply got back into his car and drove away.