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TIL that Pope Francis has never used the internet, despite having nine different twitter accounts and more than 20 million followers

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Menl0 TIL of the "Brown Ocean Effect", wherein tropical cyclones maintain their strength of even intensify after making landfall. Tropical Storm Erin (2007) and Bill (2015) both exhibited characteristics of this phenomenon.
LJM9 TIL that The Samurai was a Japanese series that was dubbed and aired in Australia, the first Japanese program to ever screen in the country. It became so popular that when lead actor Ose Koichi visited Melbourne, he was greeted by a crowd larger than that which had greeted The Beatles in 1964.
Lk1oZ TIL That seven sealed cases of moon rocks have yet to be opened since leaving the moon.
WJ09 TIL Nintendo refuses to do movies based off of their games because of the critically panned Super Mario Bros. movie.
wpkW TIL the entire movie “Chinatown” is portrayed subjectively through the eyes of the main character, Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson), who appears in every scene. In fact, in the one scene when Gittes is knocked unconscious, the film fades to black and fades back in only when he awakens.