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TIL That the Pope remarked to Michaelangelo, upon seeing the Sistine Chapel for the first time: “It ought to have gold. It looks poor”. Michaelangelo responded that “The biblical figures depicted were poor too” The work stands unretouched till this day.

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4ZOw TIL in 2004, there were three major computer virus authors at “war” with each other. They were the Netsky, Bagle and Mydoom worms. Netsky was most famous for comments within the code insulting the authors of the other viruses and, in some cases, routines that removed versions of the other viruses.
d8Vr7 TIL a French woman, Marie Belmont-Gobert, hid a British soldier in a cramped cupboard in her house from Jan 1915 to the end of WWI in 1918, despite German officers living in her home and socialising in the room the cupboard was in. She received an OBE post-war. Cupboard is in museum in U.K.
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