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TIL Within 10 years of graduation , most people work in careers that aren't directly related to their majors

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9Y5vD TIL: An affair between two Brazilian politicians was revealed when they danced together to "Bésame Mucho". Later, one of them was to be introduced with a military march, but the director of the presidential band had them play "Bésame Mucho" instead. He got 3 days of house arrest for insubordination.
GQmG TIL Pope Francis was a bouncer at a Buenos Aires nightclub before joining the priesthood.
nW8KP TIL the jones beach water tower (know locally as the pencil) situated in the roundabout in jones beach wantah, ny is modeled after St Mark's Campanile in Venice.
MewWa TIL Erik Thorvaldsson (Erik the Red), discovered a frozen island 1,500 miles west of Iceland. He wished to settle there but was worried no one would want to because of the harsh conditions. In order to fool them into taking the dangerous voyage, he told them the name of the island was "Greenland"
96R7 TIL that The International Astronomical Union names all mountains on Saturn’s moon Titan after mountains in Tolkien’s work.