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TIL Pope Francis and Pope John Paul II are honorary Harlem Globetrotters

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JPVj TIL that Mary Babnik Brown was chosen to donate her hair (which had never been treated with heat or chemicals) to become the crosshairs on Norden bombsights during WWII.
VMvZ8 TIL that there's a standard way of creating false color astronomical images called the Hubble Palette
woON1 TIL former UFC heavyweight champ Bas Rutten was a sickly child, and badly bullied. After seeing "Enter the Dragon," he started training in martial arts. At age 14 he made a list of his childhood bullies and beat them up one by one.
Z8JYG TIL that the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant had four reactors and only one was impacted by the 1986 meltdown; the others continued producing power for several years and one (Reactor No. 3) produced power until it was decommissioned in 2000.
woM6E TIL that there is a superstition dating back to 1920 that French presidential candidates who eat the famous Omelette de la mère Poulard at Mont-Saint-Michel win the elections. The story roughly translates to "eat the omelette, and president you will become."