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TIL Pope Francis used to be a night club bouncer

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e0yYE TIL The Mayan empire was wiped out more than 1000 years ago by major, lengthy drought
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GAyrj TIL the IAA mysteriously requested that Yaron Rosenthal bury the discovery of some proto-Aeolic columns, saying, “Yaron, please, you found it, but we know about it. Now forget the whole thing and keep your mouth shut.”
grPB4 TIL the indigenous Sami people of northern Scandinavia are actually people who broke off from Eastern European tribes around 1500 BC and migrated far north. They lived in relative isolation until the 19th century, subsisting on reindeer and fishing.
7rLlr TIL, "Take Poo to the Loo" was an Indian social media campaign led by UNICEF to combat the country's problems with open defecation.