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TIL Kelsey Grammer's father and sister were murdered, and his two half brothers were eaten by sharks

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9YkgD TIL that Pope Francis used to work as a nightclub bouncer in Argentina, before beginning seminary studies.
Doaj TIL that the CIA hired a magician to train agents in sleight of hand techniques for use in their mickey-slipping LSD experiments…
7raNb TIL that 20% of Finnish Americans live in Michigan or Minnesota, and that both of those states have more than twice the Finnish American population of the third (California)