The pope's hat is called a mitre, and it is filled with candy and hung from a tree branch in Vatican City on the pope's birthday. The cardinals then each take turns trying to break the mitre open, while blindfolded, with a 34 inch wooden cross made by Louisville Slugger.

The other day on Twitter, somebody started the hashtag #popefacts.  As you can guess, these are facts about the Papacy.  Many people began posting facts, some true, some not so true.  Below are the pope facts that I contributed, all of which are 100% factual:

Before he was pope, John Paul II once dunked over Moses Malone in an ABA exhibition game.

To this day, scholars maintain that Pope Clement XII was the ugliest man to ever hold the Papacy.

While Vatican City was under reconstruction in 1955, Pope Pius XII briefly held residence in a motel in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Angelo Roncalli became Pope John XXIII after defeating the other cardinals in a papal conclave poker tournament.

A little known but always enforced papal rule: Anyone who can defeat the pope in a staring contest gets to keep his mitre.

Pope John Paul II nearly lost the Papacy after misusing the Popemobile for late night drive-by baptisms with holy water balloons.