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TIL Pope Francis has only one lung.

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d8Pp7 TIL There is an extant virus in the same genus as smallpox called Monkeypox which can also infect humans and causes a disease that looks like a milder version of smallpox, with a death rate of up to 10%
ANDEg TIL that people can actually die of a broken heart and the medical term is Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (broken-heart syndrome)
4rxJ TIL There is an esoteric programming language called LOLCODE, in which code is expressed in the style of lolcat speech, implementing lines of code like “HAI,” “CAN HAS [LIBRARY]?” and “KTHXBAI.”
KpbG TIL of Suicide showers, also known as “widow makers,” are showers where the water is heated in the shower head rather than the traditional method of being fed from a centralized hot water tank.
8e9LZ TIL Russia and Pluto have almost the same area. Pluto has 17.7 million square kilometers while Russia has 17.3 million square kilometers.