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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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nWo49 TIL that the two earliest versions of The Scream by Edvard Munch were created with egg tempera and crayon on cardboard. These editions are now in the Oslo National Gallery and the Munch Museum.
lXEN TIL Hugh Laurie from House was set to become an Olympic Rower, following the success of his father winning gold in the 1948 Olympics. It was Glandular Fever which forced him to abandon competitive rowing.
oZGW TIL that a reliable way of detecting art forgeries is to test for cesium-137 and strontium-90 as these isotopes did not exist in nature prior to the first use of nuclear weapons in 1945.
awXQb TIL that men produce a higher percentage of motile sperm in their ejaculates after viewing sexually explicit images of two men and one woman (a sperm competition risk) than after viewing sexually explicit images of three women, likely indicating a response to an active risk of sperm competition.
eplWD TIL Mimosa flower is the symbol of the International Women's Day (Mar 8th) in Italy -- some men give a mimosa bouquet to their wives, female family members, and colleagues at workplaces