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TIL that the site for modern-day Vatican City was originally a circus for Roman Emperor Nero called Circus of Nero.

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b6JBZ TIL Frances Bean Cobain (daughter of Kurt Cobain) filed for divorce from her 1st husband, Isaiah Silva, in 2016 after less than 2 years of marriage. They ended up fighting for custody of Kurt's guitar played during his MTV Unplugged performance in November 1993. The court awarded it to Silva.
QNMme TIL Encyclopaedia Britannica's best all-time year was 1990 when 100,000 sets were sold. Sales started falling when Microsoft released Encarta in 1993. In 2010, the final print run produced 12,000 sets.
xV0xB TIL that the reason so many African flags have green, yellow and red is because of the Ethiopian flag; as one of the few independent African nations during the colonial period, the new countries of Africa looked to them for inspiration
A1Dn TIL Paul McCartney, when writing Eleanor Rigby, named her after a costar and a store, only later to find a Grave of Eleanor Rigby near where John Lennon and Paul met.
aNBN TIL that there exists a planet between Mars and Jupiter known as Ceres. It’s a dwarf planet, like Pluto, and may contain water and an atmosphere.