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TIL our new, humble Pope chose a five year old Ford Focus as his Popemobile.

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dDD8d TIL in 1955, actor Ray Liotta was adopted from an orphanage at the age of six months. He hired a private detective to locate his biological mother in the 2000s, and learned that he had one biological sister, one biological half-brother, and five biological half-sisters.
grAYX TIL researchers discovered the oldest known sentence written in the first alphabet, Canaanite, on a head-lice comb believed by scientists to have been made around 1700 BCE. The inscription on the luxury item reads "may this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard."
b6pZ7 TIL The sliding door dates back to atleast the 1st century CE with archeological evidence found in Pompeii.
5Vn0B TIL that since 2011 the first three digits of Social Security Numbers no longer are assigned by geographic location.
M7xxK TIL that the sewage pipes on the USS Gerald Ford, the US Navy's newest carrier, are too narrow to handle the load of the full crew, causing vacuum failure and repeatedly clogged toilets. A specialized acid solution must be used to flush and unclog the system, at $400,00 per flush.