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TIL of Pope Celestine V, who was elected as pope against his will. Five months into his reign, he decreed that popes had the right to resign, then resigned. He was then imprisoned by his successor, who feared the former pope could undermine his authority, and died in prison two years later.
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TIL that In 2018, Pope Francis married two flight attendants in an impromptu mid-air wedding on a plane during a trip to Chile. The couple had gotten married in a civil ceremony in 2010 but weren’t able to follow it up with a church service because of the earthquake in Chile that year.
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TIL Pope John Paul II considered naming Isidore of Seville (560-636 AD) as patron saint of the Internet. In his twenty-book opus, he sought to set out the origins of as many things as he could, from Church history to road building and language. He also invented the full stop, comma and colon.
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