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TIL In Milan the Madonnina (golden statue of the Virgin Mary that sits on top of the cathedral) must be the tallest point of the city. So now whenever they build a taller building they put a copy of the statue on top.

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m14rv TIL sea turtle gender is determined by the temperature of the incubation. Boys are literally cool while girls are hot!
0j5L TIL that Henry Ford had a “Sociological Department” that would show up at employees’ homes unannounced to make sure it was clean and the kids were going to school.
0XwR TIL there is a railroad station in Kinokawa, Japan whose Station Master is a cat.
19yW TIL that there is a man who has made a living for over 30 years startling people at Fisherman’s Wharf in California. He reportedly makes $60,000 “in a good year.”
wLwx7 TIL photography film was made with only Caucasian skin in mind and Kodak only really developed the technology to colour balance darker skin tone by chance- because of complaints over poor light calibration from makers of brown furniture.