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TIL: Renegades Auberjonois was a Bonaparte

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69rlW TIL that in his letter of 1637 to the Procurators of San Marco, Monteverdi complains that the bass Aldegati, in front of a congregation shouted, “The Director of Music comes from a brood of cut-throat bastards, a thieving, fucking, he-goat… and I shit on him and whoever protects him.”
e0VK5 TIL In a 1958 documentary, Disney faked mass suicide of lemmings by throwing some lemmings bought from Inuit children off of a cliff into the ocean
N7l8Q TIL: John Paul II (pope from 1978-2005) was the first non-Italian to be elected to the papacy since Adrian VI (1522-1523, and the only pope to have been born in the Netherlands.) Neither of John Paul II's succesors has been Italian.
RpEj TIL that the US nuclear arsenal is the property of the civilian Department of Energy, not the military Department of Defense
ne069 TIL of Southeastern Provisions, a slaughterhouse in which its owner was reported for weekly deposits of $100K for in-cash-payroll. Many workers were undocumented and not paid for overtime. After a undercover operation, the IRS and ICE raided the site in one of the largest raids in US history.