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TIL in 2017, Apple announced plans to demolish a historic Aboriginal art gallery to make way for one of their stores in Melbourne. After intense backlash from Australians, authorities rejected the plan.

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GAoXg TIL that The Juilliard School has about 275 pianos, including 231 Steinway grands. Also, that the Strings Dept. allows students to borrow valuable historic stringed instruments for special events. Among the more than 200 such instruments, several are by Stradivari and del Gesù.
R5ly4 TIL standard greetings likely evolved from handshaking to hierarchical bowing to handshaking, against which a French society was formed to abolish 'le shake-hands' as a vulgar English innovation
Z80wB TIL there is something called 'sovereign immunity', preventing Queen Elizabeth from law prosecution. In theory, she could get away with murder.
5Yam8 TIL George Washington's "Prayer at Valley Forge" never happened as he was not particularly religious.
Oo8wR TIL about Riccardo Bertani, an Italian farmer. Being the most proficient polyglot ever, he left the studies after elementary school and taught himself more than 100 languages.