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TIL when Pope John XXIII was once asked, “How many people work in the Vatican?” John replied, “About half.”

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wLXgE TIL dogs can become afflicted by Happy Tail, a syndrome where the tail is wagged so hard that it hits walls, furniture, and people until it begins bleeding. Because of the wagging, that blood is then flicked onto walls, ceilings, and anything else in the vicinity.
nWG89 TIL Mozart, Lenin and Hitler were all regulars at the very same bar
PmOZ TIL that an Iraqi doctor with insurgent ties killed 43 military patients during the Iraq War by “treating” their bleeding with anticoagulants.
GAm4N TIL prior to Pope Francis in 2013, the last pope to choose a unique name without a regnal number was Pope Lando, who was pope from September 913 to March 914.
xVrgk Today I learned that Einstein won the Nobel Prize not for his famous equation E=mc^2 but for the discovery of the photoelectric effect.