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TIL Pope Francis used to be a night club bouncer

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EdjP TIL that a 2005 study found that the scores of “wine experts” are essentially meaningless, revealing that a typical judge’s scoring of a wine varied by plus/minus four points over three blind tastings poured from the same bottle.
e0MEE TIL that white cats with blue eyes are usually deaf. This condition is called "Congenital sensorineural deafness in cats" and quite common.
8aLoV TIL In order to protest the high tariffs enforced by a U.K. censorship board, a filmmaker sent in a 10 hour “movie” of white paint drying. They had to watch the entire film.
pL9Q TIL Thomas Edison did not invent the lightbulb and that electric lights had already existed for more than 70 years before he filed his patent in 1878
YVbv TIL in 1944 a sixteen-year-old black student in Columbus, Ohio, won an essay contest on the theme ‘What to Do with Hitler after the War’ by submitting the single sentence, “Put him in a black skin and let him live the rest of his life in America.”