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TIL that Pope Donus II never existed; his name was a result of a medieval scribal error misreading the Latin honorific "domnus" as a proper name. And despite his fictional origin he has been praised for some honourable conduct and even has Images supposedly depicting him.

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WErd TIL that Donald Trump paid off a man’s mortgage after he helped change flat tires in Trump’s stranded Limo.
j6QGv TIL in 1930, Helen Adelaide Shelby patented a device for a skeleton in a dark room shrouded with ominous lighting, red lightbulbs for eyes, and a megaphone and film camera in its skull. The goal was to use it to question culprits and induce a supernatural experience that would urge them to confess
yVy8p TIL If you speak only one language you are a minority(40%) as most of the world speaks two(43% of people) or more languages.
nWwlW TIL that AI systems have developed their own languages to communicate with each other, a phenomenon known as emergent language, which researchers are still striving to fully understand.
d8Byj TIL a man was attacked for having a beard in 1830, then imprisoned for defending himself. He died in 1873, by which time beards were fashionable. His tombstone reads, "Persecuted for wearing the beard."