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

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MeyaK TIL that If you observe a a rainbow from an airplane (a glory), it will make a full circle, and you will always see the shadow of the plane in the center of the circle.
Mea9m TIL the designs on the microwave door glass act as a Faraday Cage to block the electrons from the microwaves. The shapes stop the wave from reaching outside the glass, thereby preventing damage to our eyes from looking inside the microwave.
No5E TIL One of North Korea’s largest exports is giant statues of foreign dictators.
9Y4ep TIL that highly sensitive devices used to detect radionuclides have to be made from steel salvage from sunken WWI&II ships, as steel since then has been contaminated too much from nuclear bombs.
kOpeB TIL that Andrés Escobar, a Colombian national team soccer player, was murdered by drug lords in retaliation for accidentally scoring a goal against his own team in the 1994 World Cup. The killer shouted "Goal!" with each bullet he put in Escobar.