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TIL Pope's cannot be an organ ( eyes, kidneys, bone marrow etc.) donor as his body is deemed to sacred to be transferred to ordinary person.

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eZb4 TIL Stephen Colbert exists in the Marvel Universe. He ran for president and he helped Spider-Man defeat a villain
NXd68 TIL Greenland's name was made by Erick the Red hoping that the pleasant name would lure other settlers to the island. To some extent, the trick worked because several Vikings from Iceland who were escaping famine managed to establish some settlements in Greenland after a few years.
epE04 TIL Si Ouey, allegedly the first serial killer in modern Thailand, may have been an innocent scapegoat accused of child cannibalism.
VMKY4 TIL Beethoven was never considered a child prodigy. In fact, he didn't play his first symphony until he was 30 years old.
awAYo TIL: Albert Günther Göring (9 March 1895 – 20 December 1966) was a German Businessman who helped Jew and dissidents survive in Germany during the Second World War. His older brother was Hermann Göring, the head of the German Luftwaffe and a leading member of the Nazi Party.