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TIL that Chevy Chase and Anderson Cooper are cousins.

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5VrvD TIL James Beck was a prominent art historian who criticized the restoration of both the Sistine Chapel ceiling by Michelangelo and the Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci. He believed that restoring an artwork risked altering it and instead advocated for conservation of artworks in their present state.
DyKJ TIL: Elvis Presley requested to be made a DEA agent so that he could travel with drugs without any problems. President Nixon agreed to meet him and gave him a special badge.
pY6WG TIL in 1965 part of the training to be Special Forces Medic in Vietnam included the Dog Lab at Fort Bragg where they had to shoot a Dog (The Patient) with a .22 (in the thigh) and then successfully treat the wound
j9jp TIL that the AVERAGE male is stronger than 99.9% of women (from an actual scientific study)
P1EdG TIL that stargardt disease makes the center of your vision blind, making you only being able to see the sides