Stories: Vatican City

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• The world's smallest state has a cycling team too.Vatican Cycling joined the Union Cycliste Internationale in 2021. It became the first Vatican sports body adm…
• Vatican City had the world's highest murder rate in 1998. Its population explains why.Two people were murdered in Vatican City in a single 1998 incident. With so few residents, that produced the…
• Donus II had a portrait and praise, but apparently never existed.A medieval papal list seems to have mistaken the title domnus for a person's name. Later writers gave the sup…
• The Vatican joined the world taekwondo federation without a registered team.Vatican Taekwondo became a World Taekwondo member in 2021. According to the federation's listing as of July 2…