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TIL - When Pope Francis released white doves from his studio window overlooking St. Peter’s Square in Rome the “symbol-of-peace” birds were immediately attacked by a seagull and a crow.

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JBOQ TIL the blue whale, weighing in at 170 tons, is way bigger than any dinosaur ever was and probably the largest known animal to have ever existed.
WkbYL TIL of Julius Lothar Meyer who was a German chemist. He was one of the pioneers in developing the first periodic table of chemical elements. Both Mendeleev and Meyer worked with Robert Bunsen. He never used his first given name, and was known throughout his life simply as Lothar Meyer.
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ADVeB TIL the reason we call them an ear nose and throat doctor, is because the actual word to describe them is one of the hardest words to pronounce in the English language. The correct word to use is a Otorhinolaryngologist. o-to-rhi-no-lar-yn-gol-o-gist
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