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TIL: that Renaissance artist Michelangelo illustrated his shopping list because his servant was illiterate.

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mvWy TIL that bystanders in China are afraid to help in an accident because a court precedent assigned blame to the helper
JJlv TIL A recent study showed 25% of US drivers making a turn failed to use signals correctly. 48% of US lane changers failed to use signals. Such failures are responsible for up to 2M preventable accidents a year.
R707a TIL that "sperm washing" is a fertility technique used when a couple want to make a baby but the male partner is HIV+, so the sperm are washed to remove the HIV virus so it doesn't get transmitted to the mother or child.
vnEr TIL that the Shell Corporation started out in 1833 as an import-export business specialising in oriental seashells. They started shipping oil over 50 years later but the name stuck.