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TIL The statue of young David was made from a flawed piece of marble that had been ruined by two artists, and no one was willing to work on it. Despite the flaws in the marble, Michelangelo accepted the challenge and created this masterpiece.

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loLLK TIL in 2012 a 80 yo lady safely landed a plane after her husband, the pilot, had an heart attack and died while flying. She had never flown before.
m8kM TIL Muay Thai Kick boxers go through bone training by creating hairline fractures in their shins that eventually heal becoming harder than rock
rNdko TIL that Groucho Marx had several “last words” before his death. Some had thought it was “either I’m dead or my watch has stopped,” whilst others believed it to be “die, my dear? why that’s the last thing I’ll do!” His actual last words were “this is no way to live.”
RAQj TIL in the 1960s South Korea secretly trained misfits plucked from prison or off the streets to sneak into North Korea and slit the throat of its leader, Kim Il-sung. When the mission was aborted, the men mutinied, killed their trainers and fought their way into Seoul before blowing themselves up.
Nbj1 TIL that Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Elaine Benes) is nearly 4 times as rich as Jerry Seinfeld