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

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yVKLM TIL that stretched earlobes (gauged ears) often smell bad due to dead skin and sebum.
5V1nB TIL that more than 1,600 people are recorded to have died from falling off the Great Pyramids of Giza in the last 200 years
7rrZb A beluga whale living in captivity with a pod of bottlenose dolphins has learned their language of whistles and clicks, scientists believe.
GYPpG TIL the reason we write from left to right is to not smudge ink. The Greeks (from whom English is derived) mostly had right handed stone workers and when they began to use papyrus, left to right allowed them to see what they were writing as well as prevent ruining the paper by smudging the ink