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TIL Pope John Paul II loved Doc Martens boots so much he gave 100 pairs to Swiss Guards in the Vatican.

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wLWyM TIL a 9-man Special Forces team landed on top of 10,000 North Vietnamese soldiers and fought their way out after making barricades from enemy corpses and jumping off a cliff.
NoOP TIL the Federal Reserve Bank isn’t a part of the USA government, but is a private, for-profit corporation. With a monopoly on our money.
Zp4nv TIL "Dune" was rejected by at least 20 publishers before being published by Chilton, the auto-manual company.
6mYY TIL: That 91% of singles in America have tried online dating, and those who get married through online dating do so almost 2 years quicker than their offline counterparts.
p8O6Q TIL that commercial boosting, the act of a low ranked player paying a highly ranked player to place their account in a high rank, is a criminal offense in South Korea. Punishments can be up to 2 years in prison or a fine up to 20 Million Won, or 18,000 USD.