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Top 5 ​Surprising Facts About the Vatican​


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established as an independent nation in
1929 Vatican City is a country shrouded
in opulence and mystery welcome to
watchmojo.com ting down the five most
interesting facts that we could find
about the Vatican the official residence
of the Pope and central home of the
Catholic Church number five
Vatican City has the world’s highest
crime rate straight on a cop another
great one measured per capita that is
this is because the Vatican has a small
population of roughly 1000 yet attracts
a large number of visitors from all
around the world with this massive
influx of outsiders there are more
crimes committed than there are actual
people living in the country the large
crowds that gather in such a small area
make it the perfect place to commit
petty crimes such as pickpocketing or
shoplifting the Vatican has no prisons
within the country so when a perpetrator
is found guilty of a serious crime
they’re sent to an Italian prison to
serve out their sentence an arrangement
made when the country was founded number
four there has only been one reported
murder in the Vatican what’s that you
said I should murder weapon– de in 1998
a commander of the Swiss Guard allo
assessed ermine and his wife were shot
by fellow swiss guard cedric Tornai who
then turned the gun on himself the
church investigated the case and came to
the conclusion torn a murder testerman
because he was denied a promotion the
Swiss Guard is a calling not a
profession however it was rumored that
Tornai and Esther men were gay lovers
which may have been a relevant factor in
the murder I wish I knew how to quit you
yet others believe the Catholic Church
was behind the murder because the church
supposedly wanted a regime change within
the Swiss Guard which is the de facto
military of Vatican City with all due
respect your holiness it’s the Swiss
Guard I think we can handle a few court
jesters with whatever halbert’s for its
handling of the matter the church has
been accused of being non transparent
and possibly covering up a conspiracy
it’s about arriving at the truth of what
you know what I’m talking about
number three Vatican City is the first
carbon-neutral state
we printed 5,000 well print 5,000 I’m
trying to take a planet in 2007 under
pope benedict xvi direction the vatican
made some changes that would bring its
carbon footprint to zero they installed
more than 2,000 solar panels on the
roofs of buildings to take care of the
energy needs such as heating and cooling
and the Vatican Bank bought a forest and
Hungary as a carbon offset in 2011 the
Vatican announced a deal with Mercedes
to develop the first ever hybrid
popemobile though it’s not clear if they
ever follow through on that however
their security force does have at least
one electric vehicle number two the
Vatican archives is a historical who’s
who the Vatican archives is a private
vault which contains significant
historical items from various periods of
time everything from the official
document where Pope Leo the tenth
excommunicated Martin Luther for writing
the 95 theses two letters from Abraham
Lincoln and Jefferson Davis addressed to
Pius the ninth there’s even a letter
from Michelangelo telling pope julius ii
that the pope was behind on his payments
to his guards and they were going to
walk out and let’s see paid-up megan
Angelo that was him that was him we
forgive him because he is a genius
whatever that means
snitches get stitches Michelangelo only
the Pope gets to choose which documents
make it into the archives and only a
select group of people Illuminati
hmm are allowed access to the documents
haven’t been able to finish part two
because I’m not allowed access to your
archives number one the ATM speak Latin
Latin Spanish French Latin uh math did I
say that right anyway you know just all
the stuff you want your kids to know
it’s been covered Latin is the official
language of the Catholic Church and the
Vatican wants it to become a living
language with practical everyday use
Latin who speaks Latin no one speaks
Latin there was dead language hence
making all automatic tellers operated by
the Vatican Bank offer the option of
being served in Latin as part of their
efforts they’ve published a dictionary
lexicon resented a lot tinnitus which
has Latin translations for modern words
such as rush hour baseball and blue
jeans
do you speak Latin feel like if soon
reruns becaise which means wait what
would you just say
and in 2012 pope benedict opened up a
Pontifical Academy whose exclusive focus
was to teach Latin so that new
generations could properly learn the
language what is that the Latin but you
read you speak Latin now well not since
10th grade the academic study of a
historical language is all well and good
but in 2005 knowing Latin became a
serious issue an american lawsuit
against the vatican that sought damages
for sexual assault victims was held up
for months as the vatican disputed the
validity of the suits translation into
latin twenty-seven lawyers in the room
anybody know Post hoc ergo propter hoc
josh uh post after after hoc ergo
therefore after hoc therefore something
else huh so what did we leave out what
do you think is the most interesting
fact about the Vatican esatto gay cosa
stiamo facendo ah man we have to learn
lat
– yeah that’s a deal-breaker for more
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was this one this is hella got the word
out this is the truth not what the
Vatican forced him to write
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