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TIL Benedict IX is the only person to have been Pope more than once. He was forced out, managed to regain the throne, only to resign because he wanted to marry his cousin. He soon changed his mind and became Pope for the third time. He is the youngest Pope in history (aged 20 when first elected)

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W7r14 TIL about Dr.Yusuf Hamied, a billionaire and chairman of Cipla Pharma, who is known as "Robin Hood", while Big Pharma calls him a "Pirate". He stood up to the big pharma and manufactured generic AIDS drugs bringing down the cost from $12,000 per year to $350 per year, thus saving millions of lives
LQlVZ TIL: "Jumbo" was a male African bush elephant who was an attraction for PT Barnum. He was hit by a train in St. Thomas, Ontario and died. He was not named Jumbo because of his size; we got the word "jumbo" because of his name.
xdyo TIL a road called the King’s Highway was built from Boston MA to Charleston SC starting in 1650, on the order of King Charles II. Its northern section had been a Native American path for so long before that it was dug 2 feet into the ground, and it evolved into the first highways in North America.
nWo9Y TIL that Gutzon Borglum, the designer and sculptor for Mount Rushmore, was later commissioned to create a statue of Woodrow Wilson in Poznań, Poland. The statue was destroyed in 1945 when the Soviets and Germans fought for control of the city.
Ek9p TIL that before her 7-day trip to space, NASA engineers asked Sally Ride if 100 tampons was the right number for the mission