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TIL Michelangelo had forged Roman antiques to help start his career as an artist

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BWmb TIL the Bermuda Triangle has as many disappearances as any other place in the ocean of a similar size and many of the mysteries attributed to it happened outside of the triangle.
DOoe TIL there’s a pair of GPS shoes nicknamed the “No Place Like Home” shoes because they will point you in the direction of home if you click your heels three times.
mxlOP TIL in 1870, the corrupt leader of NYC’s city Hall, Boss Tweed offered the New York Times the equivalent of $100 million to not publish their expose on his political corruption.
b9K60 TIL: A sperm contain 37.5 MB of genetic information and that 11,250 Terabyte of information is transmitted / ejected. that is like 13636.3 of PS5 storage.
xV9jD TIL that in the 1970s in East Germany, Coffee rationing due to failed harvest and the introduction of "Mix Kaffee" (A 51% coffee, 49% filler mixture) was received so poorly that the East German Government started trading arms to Asia and Africa in Exchange for Coffee