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TIL Saint Catherine was tortured on a wheel by the Emperor Maxentius for refusing to renounce her Christian faith. The wheel broke and Catherine was eventually beheaded instead. Her martyrdom is remembered in the firework called the 'Catherine Wheel'.
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TIL that the painter Caravaggio's real name was Michelangelo.
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TIL Saint Nicholas is known for giving girls bags of gold to save them from prostitution