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TIL The galaxy we live in is totally bent out of shape.

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0Z0v TIL that Kim Ung-yong understood algebra at age 3, by the time he was 2 could speak 4 languages fluently, started attending university at age 4 and graduated at age 8, and has the highest I.Q. (210) in the world.
N78j8 TIL the actor who played the lead guitarist, Zack, in the movie “School of Rock” was arrested multiple times 15 years later for stealing guitars and amplifiers from music shops.
b087 TIL Pope Francis is the first Jesuit Pope, the first Pope from the America’s, the first Pope from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first Non-European Pope in 1,272 years. I think he is also the first Pope to be a nightclub bouncer.
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gMxPb TIL that the Panama Canal is 85 feet ABOVE sea level and uses new Locks to conserve water.