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TIL the Vatican added 7,000 LEDs to illuminate Michelangelo’s 6,000-square-foot Sistine Chapel ceiling painting. Thanks to this intervention, the work is now more visible to visitors than it has ever been in its 500-year history, including the years in which it was lit by daylight.

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GvN4 TIL Tim Curry is a huge Scooby Doo fan, and accepted a role in the 2002 film, then dropped out after learning that Scrappy Doo, a character he hated, was in the movie.
Evop TIL that childhood trauma is directly linked to sickness in adult years, and that it is much more common than originally thought
l8Z5 TIL that Paul Newman’s food product line, “Newman’s Own” donate all proceeds after taxes to charity. They have raised over $330 million so far.
kJl5W TIL that both silver and copper were worthless when the silver currency entirely collapsed in the third century CE. The only things that could support the Roman economy at this point were gold and products in kind. In actuality, it was this that ended the economic crisis of the third century.
awwRo Parasites of parasites—sometimes called hyperparasites—seem to be quite common. In fact, parasites of parasites are themselves prone to parasites, leading to what might appear to be an endless progression of interspecies abuse.