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TIL Pope Francis has a master’s degree in chemistry

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No18 TIL a Soviet soldier who went missing after a battle in Afghanistan in 1980 was found alive in 2013, living in the Afghan city of Herat. He had been rescued by locals and eventually became a nomadic sheikh and healer under the name of Sheikh Abdullah.
7rXXM TIL in 2013, a 9 year-old British girl passed through Turkish customs with a toy passport with gold teddy bears on the front that identified her as a unicorn. Her mother accidentally handed over the passport that the girl had made for her toy unicorn, and the customs offіcer accepted and stamped it
Q57e TIL that all even numbers (except 2) can be expressed as the sum of 2 prime numbers, a rule known as Goldbach’s Conjecture
8bLG TIL Dolphins seem to use toxic pufferfish to get high.
9w0GQ TIL the Canadians once invented a flying saucer during the cold war