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Blaze@dormi.zone to Today I Learned (TIL)English · 1 year ago

TIL Pope Leo XIII awarded a Vatican gold medal to the creator of his favourite brand of cocaine-infused wine and also appeared on a poster endorsing it.

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TIL Pope Leo XIII awarded a Vatican gold medal to the creator of his favourite brand of cocaine-infused wine and also appeared on a poster endorsing it.

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Blaze@dormi.zone to Today I Learned (TIL)English · 1 year ago
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    I’m here to serve the body of Christ and drink cocaine infused wine, and I’m all out of the body of Christ.

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    Dope Leo XIII… amirite?

  • n7gifmdn
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    well, now “Poison pills : the untold story of the Vioxx drug scandal” is going in my library book queue

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    Queen Victoria was also a fan, had at least one Marianis Wine glass a day for decades.

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    Hell yeah I wanna subscribe to more #Popenanigans

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    Hi I’m the pope and I’d like a cocaine-infused wine drink please.

    ID? Uhh . . . yeah . . hang on

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    My Name is Andong made this video on the subject recently. Crazy story

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    Wait till you learn how he for the money to pay for his drugs

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    This is the sort of based trad catholicism that online conservatives won’t tell you about 🔥🔥🔥

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    That was also the time where some classic tunes were created…

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    Was he, rather than Burlusconi, the inventor of ‘bunga bunga’ parties?

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