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TIL that Saint Thomas à Becket, Petrarch, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Albrecht Dürer, Nicolaus Copernicus, Pope Gregory XIII (reformer of the calendar), Enzo Ferrari, Michaelangelo Antonioni, and Umberto Eco all studied at the same university

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