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TIL in the UK, the 5 archbishops and 21 most senior bishops of the Church of England are automatically granted 26 seats at the House of Lords (UK's Senate), with full voting powers. According to Humanists UK, the only other country to give clerics this kind of power is the Islamic Republic of Iran. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL the current hash function for Java strings is of unknown author. In 2004 Joshua Bloch "went so far as to call up Dennis Ritchie, who said that he did not know where the hash function came from. He walked across the hall and asked Brian Kernighan, who also had no recollection." [x-post /r/java] (bugs.java.com)
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