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TIL the pope has his own prime minister.

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neMDY TIL Four year old Wilhelm II attended the wedding of Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark. Wilhelm was in the care of his uncle Prince Alfred. Alfred asked Wilhelm to be quiet and the child threatened to stab his uncle with a dirk. A conflict occured and Wilhelm bit his uncle on the leg.
OGJBL TIL that Danish special forces operative Helge Mayer transported vital humanitarian aid to civilians for years during the Bosnian War in an armoured 1979 Camero with Kevlar Plates. He earned the nickname Gottes Rambo (God's Rambo) for extreme bravery without a weapon.
gMgAX Police across the US are training crime-predicting AIs on falsified data
aWo9 TIL that if you are 7 feet tall, there is a 17% probability that you are in the NBA. Between 6'6 and 6'8, that probability is just .07%
9wY9M TIL that the Yam postal system of the Mongol Empire covered 190 miles in a day, and was faster than the Pony Express used 600 years later