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TIL that Pope Francis was a nightclub bouncer.

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b91B0 TIL that the largest Yakuza family had a tradition of handing out Halloween candy to trick or treaters
91VB TIL that there is an American-born beer style called “Cream Ale” that was extremely popular before Prohibition, but never regained that same popularity after Prohibition ended.
VMrKG TIL: Historically, monarchs in East Asia would use two alternative titles: internally they claimed to be “emperors”, but in dealing with China they called themselves “kings” to avoid offending the Chinese.
x66lw TIL since the 1940s, the US government sends special planes into the eyes of hurricanes to track their path. They fly through them, continuously, for the duration of the storm. The data collected from the plane is the only way to precisely locate the eye of the storm. It’s called fixing the eye.
dDww9 TIL before 9/11, New York's deadliest disaster was an excursion steamboat sinking in 1904 with 1,021 deaths and 431 survivors (most could not swim at the time).