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TIL after he was fired from his job as embassador, tortured and banished to his farm estate, N.Machiavelli would return home at night, change the dirty clothes he wore for field work and put on his ambassador outfit, just to study in his office, alone, due to how much he missed his job

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X0jNR TIL that days are associated with certain colors in Thailand
VBKp4 TIL that Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, was featured in a 1998 television advertisement for Pizza Hut.
Wk5vN TIL when Fiat introduced the 850 to the US market, they downsized the engine to just below 50 cubic inches in order to make it small enough to be exempt from emission standards, which only applied to 50 ci and larger engines.
ANlGB TIL The French drain was popularized by the American Assistant Treasury Secretary Henry Flagg French and was originally made from roofing tiles.
Wk1xo TIL that the Ancient Greeks considered gold to be a particularly dense combination of water and sunlight since most of it was found glinting in streams.