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

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16b5O TIL Swisscoy is a Swiss Armed Forces unit with up to 195 troops, deployed in Kosovo as part of NATO's KFOR peacekeeping force. Peace support is a key task of the Swiss military, anchored in law.
E1OWX TIL Due to intense metabolic demands of flight which in turn cause constant high levels of inflammation, bats have evolved ways to dampen their immune response towards the inflammation and this explains their ability to carry and transmit some of the world’s deadliest zoonotic viruses.
9YMjQ TIL that the actors that played Ethel and Fred hated one another so much, that Vivian Vance (Ethel) once stated: “I loathed William Frawley (Fred) and the feeling was mutual. Whenever I received a new script, I raced through it, praying that there wasn’t a scene where we had to be in bed together.”
GA9MQ TIL: That in Southern India the elderly are regularly killed by their families using coconut water. The practice is called Thalaikoothal.
pYERN Today I learned that Bernard Loiseau, a famous French chef, committed suicide in 2003 shortly after receiving a negative review. Loiseau was the inspiration for the character of Chef Gusteau in Pixar's Ratatouille.