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@Blaze to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.caEnglish • 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 to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.caEnglish • 1 year ago
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  • @ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    21•1 year ago

    I’m here to serve the body of Christ and drink cocaine infused wine, and I’m all out of the body of Christ.

    • @hakunawazo@lemmy.world
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      7•1 year ago

  • Greg Clarke
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    16•1 year ago

    Dope Leo XIII… amirite?

  • @n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca
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    11•1 year ago

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

  • @niktemadur@lemmy.world
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    9•1 year ago

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

  • @Jimbabwe@lemmy.world
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    8•1 year ago

    Hell yeah I wanna subscribe to more #Popenanigans

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    8•1 year ago

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

    ID? Uhh . . . yeah . . hang on

  • @loics2@lemm.ee
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    6•1 year ago

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

  • @delirious_owl@discuss.online
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    4•1 year ago

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

  • @maculata@aussie.zone
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    2•1 year ago

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

  • @antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

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

  • @heeplr@feddit.de
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    That was also the time where some classic tunes were created…

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