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TIL Pope Francis used to be a nightclub bouncer

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LQYN0 TIL about the 'Library of Alexandria in the 21st Century,' a modern library in Egypt built to honor the ancient Library of Alexandria.
vMZR TIL in 2012 a young woman’s stomach had to be removed after drinking a shot with liquid nitrogen still in it.
5Vvxp TIL that the concept of machines “hallucinating” was first noted in 1995. A researcher discovered that a neural network could create phantom images and ideas after it was randomly disturbed. This happened years before the term was applied to modern AI generating false content.
abg0 TIL, in honor of a 1982 The Far Side comic, the spiked end of a stegosaurus’s tail is referred to by paleontologists as the “Thagomizer”.
nW7yY TIL that many opal stones are actually made up of fossilized marine microbes, including diatoms and radiolarians.