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Til that Pope Francis worked briefly as a chemical technician and nightclub bouncer before entering the seminary.

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m1mWx TIL that the smell from old people is from the release of a chemical called “2-nonenal”.
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ANQmg TIL the singer building in Manhattan, which was one of the most recognized buildings in new York city, and used to be the world's tallest, was demolished in the '60s. at the time the tallest building to be purposely demolished until 2019
d84RQ TIL in 1974 Canada created the H0H 0H0 ("ho ho ho") postcode and started responding to children's previously undelivered letters. Now they answer 1mm letters per year, many of them originating from outside Canada, in the letter's native language.
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