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TIL that Pope John Paul II is considered to have begun the chain of events which saw the collapse of Communism in Europe, thanks to his trip to Poland in 1979.

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OonmY TIL in 1983 and before they were famous, John Goodman and Megan Mullally were both in the same McDonalds commercial
YpAAA TIL that Homer Simpson’s catchphrase, “D'oh!” had no official spelling for several years, and was instead written as “(ANNOYED GRUNT)” in the scripts.
nWy8P TIL the Denver International Airport is larger than Manhattan, operating on 53 square miles of land.
7rWBM TIL that a San Francisco Highway Patrol Officer, called Kevin Briggs, has talked around 200 people out of suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge since 1994.
5Y5LD TIL that Sylvester Stallone thinks having the Second Amendment is “like living in the Dark Ages” and has been described as “the most anti-gun person in Hollywood”