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TIL that Pope Francis was a nightclub bouncer.

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69GXQ TIL That OMG's (Oh My God) First Use Was In A Letter To Winston Churchill In 1917.
1aYvD TIL there are good reasons for the use of phrases such as "trust your gut" and "gut instinct", as supported by "gut-brain axis" research
ngl9 TIL Vlad the Impaler once asked a noble man if the smell of the impaled corpses bothered him. The man said yes, so Vlad had him impaled on a higher stake to the ‘smell wouldn’t bother him’.
E1K6P TIL monks in Westminster Abbey would eat 6,000 calories a day normally and 4,500 a day when "fasting". They drank a gallon of beer and 10 oz of wine and ate 2.25 lbs of bread, 5 eggs, and 2 lbs of meat or fish a day. Many monks became obese and suffered related conditions.