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TIL of Jean-Simon Bibeau, the longest portrayer of any mascot in any professional sport. He portrayed Youppi! for the Montreal Expos from 1988-1990 and the Montreal Canadiens from 2003 to the present day

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1av9d TIL that Pope John Paul II was a polyglot. He spoke 12 languages; Polish, Latin, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, English, German, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak and Esperanto. He used 9 as Pope. He learned them in 1938, just before the Nazis occupied Poland.
XE7QE TIL: Finland has ten trees for every person in the world
4vBJ TIL When Winston Churchill Traveled By Ship During WWII He Had a Lifeboat Mounted With A Machine Gun So He Could “resist capture at all costs”
NXgZP Today I learned that there is a kind of mineral called "Cummingtonite" .
J17DB TIL less time separates us from T-Rex than T-Rex from Stegosaurus