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TIL Pope Francis briefly worked as a nightclub bouncer before joining the Jesuits

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N7wyM TIL When Ringo Starr temporarily left the Beatles in 1968 because he felt side-lined, his fellow Beatles sent him a telegram telling him that he was the best drummer in the world and that they loved him. He returned, and found his drumkit covered in flowers, spelling out "Welcome Back, Ringo.".
kJZWd TIL that Since May 2022, Wendy Williams has been living under a legal guardianship that oversees both her finances and health. Williams was assigned a guardian after Wells Fargo froze her accounts in 2022, a result of her financial adviser claiming that she was of “unsound mind,”
rNlPo TIL of the "Hippy Trail" when thousands of western hippies traveled the Silk Road by bus, car, van, motorcycle, or hitch hiking, mingling with locals in Afghanistan (and the entire Silk Road) in the 1960s-70s, officially ending in 1979 when the Afghanistan war started
epdLD TIL a Mississippi driver's license does not require a driving test just a written exam.
aP5y TIL that when bubbles are collapsed by sound waves it creates light and no one knows why. It’s called “Sonoluminescence”