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•  The word “Christian” was initially a derogatory name. The new religion appealed largely to the urban poor, women, non-citizens, social outcasts, and slaves because the essence of the Gospel was that they did not need money or education to belong to the kingdom.[Catholicism]

•  The first black person to be documented as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church was known as Saint Maurice (a.k.a. St. Mauritius or St. Moritz). He was a 3rd-century Roman soldier born in Egypt who was martyred when he refused to massacre Christians for the Roman Empire.[Catholicism]

•  The smallest pedigreed cat is a Singapura, which can weigh just 4 lbs (1.8 kg), or about five large cans of cat food. The largest pedigreed cats are Maine Coon cats, which can weigh 25 lbs (11.3 kg), or nearly twice as much as an average cat weighs.[cat]

•  Catholics rely more on ritual and ceremony than do most other Christian religions. The intent of the rituals is to create an experience in which faith is felt and religion literally comes to life, with God’s presence in the here-and-now world.[Catholicism]

•  William Oughtred (1574–1660), a clergyman who offered free math lessons, was the first to use the symbol “?” for multiplication. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, however, objected because he thought it resembled the unknown “x” too much.[Multiplication]

•  The inverse of multiplication is division.[Multiplication]

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