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TIL Pope Francis used to be a night club bouncer

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6pZY TIL there are 365 beads in a military dog chain and 52 on the small chain, used for captured personal to keep track of the days and weeks.
78Dp TIL There have been no fatalities in the United States, due to a major airline crash, since November of 2001.
pdpA TIL that the motto of Detroit translates from Latin as “We hope for better things; it will arise from the ashes”.
Wkxp8 TIL The phrase "cool as a cucumber" is actually a scientific fact: The inside temperature of a cucumber can be up to 20 degrees cooler than the outside air.
pgRA TIL Nobel Prize winner Guglielmo Marconi had secured free passage on the Titanic’s maiden voyage but decided to take an earlier ship to catch up on work. Three years later he disembarked the Lusitania right before it was sunk by a German U-Boat.