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TIL Michelangelo and Leonardo were actually commissioned to paint frescos in the same room on opposite walls and it was to be Florence's premier "event" at the time. They hated each other, bickered, and neither every actually completed their work.

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b9P1E TIL that British actor Trevor Howard (known for movies such as The Third Man, Brief Encounter, Gandhi, and Superman), insisted that all his contracts include a clause excusing him from work whenever a cricket Test Match was being played.
YpRaG TIL that there is a truly massive 18 level 250 ft deep underground city beneath Derinkuyu Turkey built in antiquity 1200 to 800 BCE.
KO6MR TIL in 2008 a man at a ski resort in Italy stole a rubber padding used on a barrier to stop people at the bottom of a sledding hill. He used the padding to sled down the hill, hitting the barrier that he stole the padding from and died.
NRLe TIL Marty Robbins, singer of Big Iron, raced in NASCAR. In the 1972 Talladega 500, his laps were 15mph faster than his qualifying time. After the race, he turned down the Rookie of the Race award and admitted that he removed the carb restrictor “to see what it was like to run up front for once.”
5YK9P TIL a pony in Cornwall, England named "Fat Boy" broke out of his stable into a nearby garden with another pony, got drunk from munching on fallen fermenting apples, and fell into a swimming pool. Fire crews spent 2 hrs building a set of hay steps in the pool & hoisted Fat Boy out with harnesses.