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

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ol6Y TIL the Airbus 340 is the only airline passenger jet with no accidents
LQkwr TIL the first player to play in Negro League Baseball who would go on to play for a current MLB team was not Jackie Robinson but Pedro Dibut, a White Hispanic player from Cuba who played for Cuban Stars in 1923 and the Cincinnati Reds in 1924
oRnbL TIL that two surfaces can be bonded purely by intermolecular forces if both surfaces are smooth and flat enough. This is called optical contact bonding.
WkVBB TIL on Jose Fernandez's 4th attempt to defect from Cuba to the U.S., a person fell overboard. Jose jumped into the waters and saved the person. He recalled, "I don't remember much, just diving in the water and swimming towards this woman. As I was getting close, I could see it was my mother".
W75k9 TIL about YInMn Blue, a near perfect blue colour, which was discovered accidentally in an Oregon State University lab and is noteworthy for its vibrance and unusually high near infrared reflectance