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TIL Pope Francis was a nightclub bouncer before he was Pope

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b67mj TIL That the deadliest loss for the British in the American Revolutionary War was in Nicaragua.
QNLwe TIL about North Korean former soldier Oh Chong Song, who defected to South Korea by simply crashing his car into the DMZ and escaped under a shower of North Korean bullets.
oRBDR TIL Hitler's bunker is now covered by a parking lot and a few unassuming buildings, a strategy to ensure that the surroundings remain anonymous and unemarkable.
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