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TIL Pope Francis is the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church

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6nK7 TIL Russia didn’t consider beer to be an alcoholic beverage until 2011. Before then it was classified as a soft drink.
7rvbr TIL: When the Soviets attempted to poison the president of Afganistan in 1979, he unwittingly survived the assassination by drinking Coca Cola, as the acidic drink diluted the poison
lv01 TIL A civilian employee destroyed a half billion dollar submarine just to “get out of work early.”
PpYL TIL That for 30 years and through most of his acting career John Goodman was a raging alcoholic, saying “If I’d picture in my mind a drink—usually straight out of the ­bottle—I couldn’t not do it.” He’s been sober since 2007.
epjaL TIL a 1978 study had students approach strangers & ask to have sex. 75% of men said yes; zero women did. But a 2015 study made sure its participants believed they could accept offers of sex without fear of what might happen to them; it found when society isn’t judging, women's sex drive rivals men's