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TIL that the first recorded example of gambling on the papal elections is from the 1503 conclave

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dklZ TIL a polar bear is going “insane” in an Argentinian zoo and is not scheduled for relocation, even after another polar bear has died months earlier due to an heat stroke
vekD TIL the Super Mario Bros. movie directors were so disliked by the studio and actors that they locked them out of the editing room when filming finished
9XLG TIL Willie Nelson’s response to a statue erected in his honor was “I guess I’ll be stoned 1000 years”
M91K TIL that as a revolutionary, Josef Stalin was arrested and exiled to Siberia 6 times. He escaped the first 5. So for his 6th, he was sent to a hamlet just south of the Arctic Circle where he lived as a hunter gatherer alongside an arctic tribe for 2 years
lMGr TIL Former McGruff the Crime Dog actor, John Morales, was arrested in 2011 for having two marijuana grow operations