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TIL in Castel Sant'Angelo, Hall of Cupid and Psyche was the bedroom of the apartment built by Pope Paul III Farnese in the 1540s. Here Psyche is the personification of the soul (Psyché means "soul" in Greek) and the tasks she underwent represent the path to spiritual elevation towards salvation.

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pj5e TIL: A guy volunteered to get imprisoned at Auschwitz in order to gather the first intelligence report on the camp. He then organized a resistance movement and informed the Western Allies of Nazi atrocities. He then escaped from the camp and took part in the Warsaw Uprising. Whoa.
e0P0E TIL that Mercury is the closest planet to Earth and to every other planet in the solar system most of the time.
jNoRN TIL a 5 year old child was sacrificed in Chile after the largest earthquake ever recorded. The two charged were released after 2 years, as the judge ruled they "acted without free will, driven by an irresistible natural force of ancestral tradition."
pK4p TIL in 2015 people spent more money at restaurants than on groceries for the first time ever according to the United States Commerce Department.
4kpyX TIL In 2013, Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy, contributed a collection of Carl Sagan's personal documents to the Library of Congress. Sagan was a source of childhood inspiration for MacFarlane, which prompted MacFarlane's involvement in the Cosmos revival in 2014 and upcoming documentary