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TIL one of the leading candidates to be the next Pope is named Pierbattista Pizzaballa

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w4O1 TIL that there used to be a popular children’s game called “mumblety-peg.” Children would compete to see who could throw a knife into the ground closer to their own feet. The loser had to pick his knife out of the ground with his teeth. Impaling your foot was an automatic win.
nWaMb TIL Back in 1993, Shaquille O’Neill would “punch you in the stomach and not give a heck”
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