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TIL that Pope Francis was a nightclub bouncer.

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4Xg06 TIL that real parmigiano reggiano cheese is only made in a very small area of northern Italy and "parmesan cheese" is counterfiet. Also, Italy has a black market for cheese.
xVEnb TIL Jonah Hill was hospitalised with bronchitis after shooting for "The Wolf of Wall Street". He had been snorting Vitamin D for close to seven months since the movie involved several scenes of coke snorting.
mdVo TIL the furthest a human being has ever been from Earth was when Apollo 13 passed around the far side of the moon on April 15, 1970. At their furthest point, the crew were 248,655 miles from Earth.
kwB1 TIL that in 1959, 9 hikers went missing on “Dead Mountain” in Siberia. Their tent was found ripped open from the inside and although the corpses showed no signs of struggle, two victims had fractured skulls, two had broken ribs, and one was missing her tongue. Only their footprints were present.
6E59W TIL that the International Morse code distress signal <SOS> does not stand for anything. It was adopted due to being easy to remember and broadcast even for people unfamiliar with Morse code, being a continuous sequence of three dots, three dashses, and three dots, with no spaces.