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TIL Ozzy Osbourne donated $10,000 to a music school for underprivileged children after watching their rendition of “Crazy Train”

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eAr5 TIL that Michelangelo actually intended his famous David statue to be viewed from what we consider to be the side. It presents David as a much more menacing figure, facing down Goliath. Part of the genius of the sculpture is that viewing it from the side suddenly lets you see him as a gentler figure
Bg6eW TIL that 5 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Americans held a Miss Atomic Bomb pageant
QNRkM TIL Abraham Lincoln signed into a law that began the IRS and was the USA’s first income tax. It was done to help pay for civil war expenses
LmZm TIL one of the biggest drug lords in history was a woman who built Miami by giving her money to banks, killed two of her husbands, made $80 mil, sold drugs for 50 years, and set the standard for drug trade which led to Pablo Escobar’s success. She only served ten years in prison.
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