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TIL the song “Respect”, one of the biggest feminist anthems ever recorded, was written by Otis Redding

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R7we7 TIL that in the The Dark Knight Bruce Wayne drives a Lamborghini Murciélago (Spanish for "Bat"). However, Lamborghinis are commonly named after fighting bulls, so Batman drives a car named after a bull named Bat.
aJoM TIL that while in Rome in the 1570’s El Greco dismissed Michelangelo’s Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel and extended an offer to Pope Pius V to paint over the whole work in accord with the new and stricter Catholic thinking.
mAgR TIL on the day of Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination, he had narrowly missed a previous attempt which had injured his men. He decided to visit them in hospital and his driver took a wrong turn and stopped a few metres away from the assassin who promptly shot the Archduke.
Q1nL TIL: The Origin Of “Piss Poor” was that urine was used to tan animal skins so family’s would pee in a pot and sell it to the tannery. “Don’t have a pot to piss in” were the extremely poor who couldn’t even afford a piss pot for the tannery.
7rZ8L TIL Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and Richard Wagner (1813-1883) were frenemies, and one of the last nails in the coffin of their friendship was Wagner's allusion that Nietzsche's ill health was the result of "excessive masturbation".