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The only noteworthy thing he did as pope was changing rules so popes could resign, and being the first pope to resign.

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TIL a hermit monk wrote a furious letter to the Church for not electing a pope fast enough, so they responded by making him pope. He refused and attempted to flee into the woods.

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@Timmysofine This is some really good grammatical insight

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A grammar tip:

When choosing between “and me” or “and I” in a sentence, choose the one that works if you drop the other person.

“My sister and I went to the store,” becomes, “I went to the store,” which is correct.

“My sister and me went to the store,” becomes, “Me went to the store,” which is incorrect.

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TIL that in the late 1970s, the USSR paid for ABBA's music albums entirely in oil. Because the Soviet rouble was worthless abroad, the band traded their music rights for tankers of crude oil, which briefly made ABBA Sweden’s second-largest corporate export behind Volvo.

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TIL Tron (1982) was considered ineligible for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects because “the Academy thought we cheated by using computers.”

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TIL that a small swimming pool in Exmouth UK, uses a data centre to heat it.

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TIL that cashier in most of USA are not allowed to sit.

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TIL a python owned by Australian drug traffickers who ran a meth lab got addicted to crystal meth from the fumes and absorption through the skin. The “very aggressive” snake was put in a wildlife care program run at a minimum-security prison in Sydney, and recovered.

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TIL Reindeer eyes change from gold in the summer to a deep blue in the winter, making the eye up to 1,000x more sensitive to light in near-total darkness conditions. They are the only known mammal to do this.

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TIL that stone crabs are one of the few entirely sustainable seafood sources. Fishermen only harvest their claws and return the crabs to the ocean alive, where they can completely regenerate their missing limbs over time.

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TIL Japanese law does not recognize married couples who have different surnames as lawful husband and wife.

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TIL that most restrooms are free in the USA due to activism efforts in the 70s by the Committee to End Pay Toilets in America. Membership in the Committee cost $0.25, and members received a newsletter, the Free Toilet Paper.

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I sleep in a tent surrounded by four other tents, with no distance between us.

One of these tents belongs to a disabled man and his wife. He suffers a lot at night, and once he wet himself because it was too hard for him to reach the bathroom. I hear him calling out, but no one responds. His voice pains me deeply.

The second tent belongs to a young man recently married, who doesn’t know how to talk to his wife because he’s afraid someone in the nearby tents will hear him. You see him all day sitting in sorrow, reflecting, and asking himself: What have I done to deserve such a fate?

In the third tent, there’s a young man and his elderly mother, who walks with great difficulty and has diabetes. He takes her to the bathroom many times during the night. I admire his devotion to his mother; I’ve never seen a young man show such love in all the schools I’ve lived in.

The fourth tent belongs to a family that was very wealthy before the war, but now they have nothing. This genocide has taken everything from them. They try to live and adapt to the harsh conditions, but they are unable to.

As for me, I am a stranger in this place, sleeping in a tent by chance with strangers I know nothing about, but I will leave.

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He even knocked down his office walls so anyone could walk in.

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TIL in 2009 when Japan Airlines CEO Haruka Nishimatsu was forced to cut his employees' salaries, he also cut his own to $90K. He also took the city bus to go to work, ate in the company cafeteria, & bought his suits at a discount store.

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TIL1913, a roulette wheel at the Casino de Monte-Carlo in Monaco spun black 26 times in a row, which had an approximately 1 in 68 million chance of happening. Gamblers lost millions of francs betting against black thinking that after so many black spins, a long red streak follows

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TIL that Alan Napier had never read comic books and did not know about Batman. He told his agent "It was the most ridiculous thing I had ever heard of. He said, 'It may be worth over $100,000.' So I said I was Batman's butler". Napier played Alfred on 111 episodes of the 1966 TV.

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it is still sold on the black market. In 2019, the illegal production worth was estimated to be €2–3 million

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TIL Casu martzu (rotten cheese) is an Italian cheese that contains live maggots from the cheese fly used for fermentation in Sardinia. Despite the EU ban for hygiene-health concerns,