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TIL that there is a scholarship at Loyola University Chicago that gives full tuition if you are Catholic and have the last name Zolp.

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6E70m TIL that Keira Knightley was in Star Wars Episode 1 "The Phantom Menace." She played Sabe, Queen Amidala's double/decoy. She was 12 years old at the time of shooting.
8axv4 TIL of prominent Mafia Capo and hitman Gergory Scarpa. He contracted of AIDS after receiving a blood transfusion from his close friends and family. He refused the blood from the hospital blood bank because he feared that the blood might have come from blacks. The AIDS claimed his life 2 years later.
PYLlg TIL that in the past year there were an average of over 9700 planes carrying 1.2 million people in the sky at any given time. That would make the skies the 156th most populous country in the world,right between Estonia and East Timor.
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