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TIL an early script for Back to the Future featured Marty hiding in a lead-lined fridge to survive a nuclear blast. It obviously didn’t make it into the final version, but producer Steven Spielberg would later use the idea for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of them Crystal Skull

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a8Nx0 TIL While Michelangelo was painting the Last Judgement, Papal MC Biagio de Cesana spied on his work. And complained that it was not worthy of the Sistine Chapel. In response Michelangelo painted Biagio into the fresco, as the depiction of Minos being dragged to Hell with a snake biting his penis.
1o7 TIL that Italy is the leading producer of Kiwi fruit in the world, despite having origins in Southern China
x6amb TIL of the Normandy Massacres, a series of killings committed against Canadian soldiers by Hitler Youth SS troops. Around 1-in-7 of Canadian deaths during the Battle of Normandy were executions.
ME9K TIL in the late 19th Century, a woman named Nellie Bly became an investigative journalist, had herself committed to expose poor conditions at mental institutions, traveled the world in under 80 days, married a millionaire, and became an industrialist.
Z96B TIL that Tim Duncan is an avid fan of Dungeons and Dragons and wanted to be called “Merlin” when he first got into the league