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TIL Pope Francis has a master’s degree in Chemistry
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TIL about a Railway station in remote area of Japan that was going to close due to lack of usage. Only one girl used the train everyday to go to school. They kept the station working solely for the girl to graduate and closed once she finished her studies.
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TIL after Steve Jobs discovered a loophole that allowed a 6-month grace period before requiring a license plate on a leased car, Jobs would lease the same Mercedes-Benz SL55 AMG every six months in order to avoid having a plate
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TIL the South Park parody of Pokemon, “Chinpokomon” is a play on the Japanese word “Chinpoko” which means penis.
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TIL Blue’s Clues was one of the first shows to use software like Media 100, Photoshop and After Effects to do their animation, and were able to produce episodes four times faster than traditional methods as a result, surprising even Adobe themselves
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TIL: That American Jim Thorpe was stripped of two gold medals following the 1912 Olympics because it was discovered that he had previously played semi-professional baseball, violating the amateur rules at the time. The IOC returned replica medals to his children in 1983; 30 years after his death.