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TIL That Pope Francis opted out of the classic Popemobile and chose a blue Ford Focus

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ZWYB TIL certain Native American tribes recognized a third gender separate from male and female. A two-spirit is one who’s body manifests both masculine and feminine spirits simultaneously. They were often male and married other males but they weren’t seen as homosexual among their tribe.
5YerD TIL during WWII an American plane was shot down on the Japanese island of Chi Chi Jama. There were nine men on board, eight of whom were captured, tortured, beheaded, and eaten. The only one to evade capture had ditched his plane further from the island than the others. He name was George HW Bush.
OG0YY TIL Byzantine emperor Basil II "the Bulgar Slayer" after the battle of Kleidion divided 15,000 war prisoners into groups of 100 men, blinded 99 men in each group and left one man in each with one eye so that he could lead the others home.
W75k9 TIL about YInMn Blue, a near perfect blue colour, which was discovered accidentally in an Oregon State University lab and is noteworthy for its vibrance and unusually high near infrared reflectance
NeXQ TIL that NASA fastened a 1909 Lincoln penny to the exterior of the Curiosity mars rover for camera calibration purposes. Which means that future space archaeologists are going to be very, very confused