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TIL 1 Gian Gaston’s de Medici, the last Medici duke of Tuscany, spent the last 8 years of his life-barring two occasions- bedridden with a sprained ankle

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M7yXm TIL The Space Shuttle was designed in the hopes that spacefaring would become cheap, reliable and everyday. Instead, maintaining the fleet took months of arduous technical work and instead of flying once a week, the shuttle made on average fewer than five flights a year
BoZd TIL in the US, it is legal for employers to set a maximum IQ for a job. The thinking is that people with high IQs pose a greater risk of quitting compared to those with average IQs.
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1ar07 TIL when Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters broke his leg while performing, he designed a special "throne" that would allow him to play with his cast on rather than cancel their American Tour.