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TIL Michelangelo didn’t want to paint the Sistine Chapel and only did so because he was ordered by the Pope. This was arranged by a rival who wanted Michelangelo to fail and get banished from Rome.

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b6XPQ TIL of the Disney centrifuge. In 1964, Walt Disney and author Ray Bradbury met for lunch and Disney brought up his idea for Disney World. Bradbury described it as a "Schweitzer’s centrifuge", which comes from “Do something wonderful; people may imitate it.”, attributed to Albert Schweitzer.
8aJNb TIL The house in Parasite (2019) was not a real house, but a set constructed to Bong Joon Ho' s script and specific camera needs. Lee Ha Jun, who is also the production designer on BJH's earlier film 'Snowpiercer', designed the house from scratch to match the story and blocking requirements.
Lkp79 TIL in 1909, the United States Government confiscated Coca-Cola products because the high caffeine content breached a food safety law. This case went all to the way to the Supreme Court, and the government won, forcing Coca-Cola to pay all court costs and reduce their product's caffeine content.
neQRd TIL Oklahoma fishermen cannot legally sell paddlefish eggs used to make caviar because the Russian Mafia took control of a rural section of river & started an egg smuggling operation, transporting the eggs for sale in Russia.
JYdQv TIL of Sophie Scholl, a political activist who was executed for high treason after handing out anti-war leaflets in Nazi Germany