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TIL that when Michelangelo painted “The Last Judgement” on the Sistine Chapel, one of the Pope’s chamberlains, Biagio da Cesena, commented that the painted belonged in a brothel, not on sacred walls. Michelangelo painted him as Minos in hell, with donkey’s ears, and a snake biting his penis. NSFW

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NXQj6 TIL about "topographical disorientation", the inability to orient oneself in one's surroundings. Some people are affected from childhood despite a lack of any apparent brain damage, neurological condition, or cognitive defect.
awdk0 TIL a 2000 Japanese study suggested that “moderate drinking” could actually boost a person’s IQ.
Bg08k TIL that during the Thạnh Mỹ massacre, the Viet Cong deliberately targeted and killed 74 civilians before being fought off by US Marines and South Vietnamese soldiers.
4vBo TIL in 1968 Kim Il Sung sent 31 commandos to South Korea to try and assassinate the president. After they infiltrated the border they stumbled on two brothers chopping firewood. They decided to indoctrinate them about the benefits of communism and release them. The brothers notified the police
78AM7 TIL On 5 August 1888, 39-year-old Bertha Benz drove from Mannheim to Pforzheim with her sons Richard and Eugen, in a Model III, without telling her husband. This became the First ever cross-country automobile journey.