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WkPWN TIL In 1999 Pope John Paul II released an album. It had entirely original compositions and reached #175 on the billboard charts
6EXbJ TIL New York City is the most linguistically diverse city in the world, with as many as 800 spoken languages
VBwJQ TIL that Disney has produced 5 of the top 10 largest box office bombs in history for a total loss (adjusted for inflation) of over $1B. Additionally, Taylor Kitsch was the leading man in 2 of the top 10, both of which released in 2012.
b9Ko0 TIL the remains of a species of whale that was unidentified for 30yrs was found to be a narwhal-beluga whale hybrid with features of both. While a narwhal is toothless except males who have a spiraled tusk and belugas have 40 teeth the hybrid has 18 and some look similar to a narwhals spiraled tusk