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TIL there have been two different Popes, including Pope Francis, who are honorary Harlem Globetrotters.

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wpXM TIL a Buffalo Sabres goalies had his throat slit open with a skate. The only reason he lived was because of the team’s athletic trainer, that was a previous army medic, who put his hand inside the goalie’s neck, pinched off the severed blood vessel and waiting for doctors to arrive.
9wkDr TIL: The top (summit) of Mt Everest is grey limestone, complete with embedded marine invertebrate fossils (e.g. trilobites). This means that the rock that makes up the top Mt Everest was once underwater.
b9jVE TIL: The person on the 10,000-Yen banknote is Fukuzawa Yukichi, who was among the first Japanese to visit America in 1860, after the end of Japan's isolation period. He became known as one of the foremost experts on Western culture, and the college he founded, Keio University still stands today.
GY5pj TIL President Calvin Coolidge owned two lion cubs, named Tax Reduction and Budget Bureau.
rVaM TIL Klan numbers are down to 3,000 to 5,000 members from 5 million in the 1920s.