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TIL previous popes include the seventh pope St Sixtus, St Hyginus, St Hilarius, and St Simplicius

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rNld1 TIL Thomas Wedders (also known as Thomas Wadhouse) was an 18th-century circus performer who is said to have had the world's longest nose. His nose was allegedly 7.8 inches (20 cm) long. He was born in Yorkshire, England, around 1730 and died around 1780.
Qx8a TIL that 43% of sexual acts are completed within two minutes.
Z8lja TIL Tens of thousands of Romani were killed in the Jasenovac concentration camp, along with Serbs, Jews, and Anti-fascist Muslims and Croats. Yad Vashem estimates that the Porajmos was most intense in Yugoslavia, where around 90,000 Romani were killed.
neVnY TIL that Wally Amos - founder of the cookie brand 'Famous Amos' - was once a talent agent who signed the band Simon & Garfunkel
VM0ek TIL that a whale-sized asteroid, which could have easily destroyed an area the size of New York on collision, flew past Earth at nearly nine kilometers per sec. Surprisingly, the U.S. space agency, NASA, failed to detect the asteroid and spotted it only the day after it skimmed past the planet.