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TIL that renaissance painter El Greco made an offer to the Pope to repaint the Sistine Chapel over Michelangelo's "Last Judgement"

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LeYP TIL that Richard Harris, the first actor to play Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter film series did not originally want to play the character due to his poor health, but was encouraged to by his 11-year-old granddaughter when she threatened never to speak to him again if he did not.
epe46 TIL Disney is said to spend $10.68 billion every single year to keep their parks open and functional. If you were to split that evenly, each park would cost roughly $3.25 million per day to stay open.
OoXDg TIL: Vietnam has an island in the South China Sea with military bases, civilians, and tourism for locals, called Spratly Island, the main island in the infamous chain.
EKX0 TIL Bobby Fischer developed a variant of chess where the starting positions were randomized because he thought too many top level players were simply memorizing opening positions
KOPlE TIL in the 1980 David Lynch film The Elephant Man, Mel Brooks served as a producer but was intentionally left uncredited so audiences did not expect a comedy going in