The hammer deals holy damage, so it'll be very effective to keep hitting.

Six more weeks of winter.

The hammer does +1d8 radiant damage against undead

[insert monty python "Bring out your dead" sketch here]

A really fun factoid is that factoids being false information is not actually true!

You know, it should be obvious, but until you brought it up here, I was guilty of thinking of it as just some colloquialism (which it very well may be). But if you think of the suffix -oid, taking "humanoid" for example, you get something that isn't presenting itself as a human. But I didn't come to that conclusion, I just was like, wow, they bop the Pope with a hammer.

So thanks.

Which means that OP used factoid correctly.

The snopes article doesn't say it's outright false, just that it's not based on available evidence. So stating it as fact rather than rumor is misinformation.

The Vatican has failed to deny it for over 20 years of inquiry. The impact of this claim is benign compared to pretty much anything else the church has factually done.

it's funny and harmless, meme on.

Yes, that is the definition of a factoid

He was wearing white, when he went into the room.

Gotta be concave for the conclave!

If they were physicists they'd hold the tip of the handle with a pinching gesture, then pull the hammer back to horizontal and let it drop. Swinging with a perfect arc it would thud into the pope's head with just enough force to hurt anyone who was still alive, and get a response.

However seeing as they're still using a hammer to test for brain activity - we can assume the Catholic Church isn't that friendly to science or something.

Oh, they did. Telling if someone was really dead was difficult until modern medicine figured it out in the last century or so. People got buried alive by unwitting village elders all the time.

It's unclear. The Vatican denies it, but apparently weirder methods have been used to certify the passing of a pope before, so who knows.

Same. I had to look it up. In doing my deep research, I learned that they used an EKG on Jonny P II to confirm his expiration. That shit's hilarious. It was someone's job to EKG that OBVIOUSLY dead corpse, lol.

Dunno about you, but I'm bopping the bishop right now bb.

Can anyone proof he did not Kill the pope?

Were you there? Talked to someone in person who was there?

If not, all the information you/i/we have got most likely delivered as a bunch of hackable pixels.