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TIL that the pope can't be an organ donor

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dWe8 TIL To be a taxi driver in London you need to pass an extremely difficult exam on street routes requiring on average 12 attempts and ~3 years of preparation. The material is referred to as “The Knowledge”.
0wZgN IBM has created a computer smaller than a grain of salt and it has the computing power of the x86 chip from 1990.
WkLEY TIL 90% of Chinese teenagers and young adults suffer from myopia (short-sightedness), up from 10-20% 60 years ago
j6xbQ TIL Devon Allen, track & field athlete/Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver, was disqualified in the World Athletic Championships for a controversial false start. The starting blocks measured his reaction time from the time the gun went off at 0.099, which is 0.001 seconds faster than legally allowed.
Xgpj TIL A new bridge from Canada to the US is expected to become one of the largest international crossings in the world, but it almost wasn’t built because post-recession Michigan couldn’t afford it. Canada decided to pay for the bridge, land acquisition, and construction on both sides of the border.