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TIL the pope has his own prime minister.

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DQpPV TIL there are more people who wear glasses/corrective eyewear than people who don’t. This is true in all countries
v1LDj TIL that the US is in eternal battle with a flesh eating fly called the Screw Worm. Basically a maggot that burrow into live flesh, head first. There's a worm screw border guard at Panama, having mostly irradicating them in North America. Last US case in 2016. Yes, they will lay their eggs in you.
X0re8 TIL that they originally planned to kill off Jesse in season one of Breaking Bad.
PYaPG TIL that wearing of the Fez hat is illegal in Turkey, having been banned in 1925
M4K TIL the only man to win both the Decathlon and the Pentathlon was of native American descent and had his medals removed as he played professional sport (just like most Olympians at the time)