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TIL that there has been a pope with Jewish ancestry other than St.Peter - Pope Evaristus was a Judean with patrilineal Jewish ancestry from 99AD to 107AD

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E8N0 TIL Morocco has the oldest operating university. Older than Oxford, it was founded by a woman in 859 AD.
ep7Rb TIL that Malaysian kingship rotates every five years and that it has an elective monarchy
DwJg TIL Vin Diesel made a cameo appearance in F&F: Tokyo Drift in exchange for the rights to the “Riddick” franchise
9xrB TIL cellphones in Japan can’t turn off the shutter noise in order to protect the privacy of people.
16M9V TIL of the submarine USS Tang. It was hit when it's own torpedo boomeranged. 89 crew with 29 trapped. 13 made it out through a hatch but only 9 made to the surface where they were picked up by the Japanese and taken to a POW camp. They survived the war.