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TIL Pope Francis has a master’s degree in Chemistry

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006A TIL Pakistan sends transgender tax collectors to embarrass those who evade taxes.
Lk6b9 TIL: The reason capsaicin (the chemical in peppers) makes you feel like you’re burning is because it lowers the tolerance of the pain receptors in your mouth such that your own body heat is enough to trigger them to tells your brain that things are dangerously hot.
jNQka TIL That the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was so powerful that it sped up the earth's rotation and shortened the day by several microseconds.
ADZ5n TIL That the same bacterium that is used to make blue cheese is also responsible for foot odour and also attracts mosquitoes
V8vZ TIL George Lucas got his head stuck inside the mouth of Bruce the mechanical shark from Jaws. Steven Spielberg thought it would be funny to close its mouth on him as a prank, but Bruce malfunctioned and George was trapped