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TIL about German Cardinal Clemens August Graf Von Galen, who is both highly praised for having led efforts to fight the Aktion T4 murder of the disabled, while strongly criticised for not doing the same when it came to the Jews.

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7rK57 TIL that when Pope Benedict XI (1302) decided to hire a painter, he sent a messenger to Florence, Italy to collect a sample from Giotto. Giotto drew a perfect circle and handed it to the messenger, instructing him to bring it to the Pope. When the pope learned it was done freehand, he hired Giotto.
rNlPo TIL of the "Hippy Trail" when thousands of western hippies traveled the Silk Road by bus, car, van, motorcycle, or hitch hiking, mingling with locals in Afghanistan (and the entire Silk Road) in the 1960s-70s, officially ending in 1979 when the Afghanistan war started
gMnjX TIL when the 1957 Lotus Seven was introduced, it came as a self-assembly kit to avoid car taxation of the day. As the tax rebate didn't apply to kits that came with an assembly manual, Lotus bundled theirs with a disassembly manual that was supposed to be followed in reverse.
wLp07 TIL that Daisaku Ikeda, a Buddhist philosopher, holds 395 honorary degrees including 202 honorary doctorates from more than 59 countries across the world.
wOJo TIL the real story of The Little Mermaid involves her getting her tail split into two, excruciating pain for every step she took as a human, not even getting to marrying the Prince but instead dissolving into sea foam and her spirit having to earn her soul back one good deed at a time