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TIL: There’s a significant record of Sexually Active Popes

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ANlwg TIL the architect of the Sydney Opera House left midway though construction and never returned to Australia. He died some 40 years later having never seen his work.
Egxko TIL Rip was a stray dog adopted by an Air Raid Patrol in WW2. Although not trained for rescue work, he sniffed out over 100 victims trapped beneath buildings. He was awarded the Dickin medal for his work, which has been held partially responsible for prompting the training of search and rescue dogs.
9wr7D TIL that the largest known object in the universe is the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall and it's 10 billion light years across.
XEK0E TIL: Mike Tyson threw his first punch when he was 10 after another kid ripped the head off of his pigeon
p6aZ TIL Every Apple iPhone advertisement displays the time as 9:41 AM, the time Steve Jobs unveiled it in 2007.