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TIL in 1984, to prove to people that leprosy is difficult to catch through close contact, Pope John Paul II kissed a number of lepers in a South Korean leper colony.

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j6drN TIL-During the Irish 1916 rising fighting was paused daily between the Irish rebels and British soldiers to allow the park keeper of St.Stephens Green to feed the ducks.
9XwG TIL According to legend, in 1845, Ottoman Sultan declared his intention to send £10,000 to victims of the Irish potato famine, but was instructed to send only £1,000, so as not to donate more than Queen Victoria, who had sent £2,000. He sent £1,000 along with three or five ships full of food.
nek5B TIL of a man named Frank Amodeo who had a plan to become emperor of the world. He owned several private security firms employing 40,000 people, met with Bush in the white-house and regularly worked with intelligence agencies world wide. He was busted for tax fraud and he is currently in prison.
4kDL5 TIL In the opening prologue of Persona, Ingmar Bergman's 1966 arthouse film classic, the director inserted three frames (about 1/6th of a second) of an erect penis. This was excised from the American and British releases.
ADKEl TIL if you run out of bandages, know that you could—but probably wouldn't want to—reach for the cobwebs in your basement as an alternative. Cobwebs actually have natural antiseptic and anti-fungal properties, and were used in ancient Greece and Rome by physicians to make bandages.