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TIL that in medieval depictions of Moses, he is depicted as having horns, because the Latin word in Exodus ‘cornutam’ can either mean ‘shining’ or ‘horns’. One example is Michaelengo’s Moses in Basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome. The tradition ended around the time of this sculpture.

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5Qo9 TIL Judith Barsi, the child actor who voiced the role of Anne-Marie in the movie “all dogs go to heaven”, was shot in the head in her sleep and was set on fire by her father before he committed suicide. She was only 10 and suffered years of mental and physical abuse.
xVov7 TIL Coastal Redwood fossils date back more than 200 million years to the Jurassic period. California's gold rush caused logging old growth lumber. Today, only 5 percent of the original old-growth coast redwood forest remains.
OGEpe TIL about the Schäffer affair - in 1815, German doctor Georg Anton Schäffer was sent by the Russian-American Company to retrieve cargo from a ship that had run aground on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Instead, he tried organizing the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
nb6P TIL in Mount Dora back in 1961, the 25 richest families got together and built a huge underground bunker for themselves. They kept it secret from the rest of the town and stockpiled weapons to kill their neighbors if they tried to get inside.
0x45 TIL that the current CEO of YouTube, Susan Wojcicki, is the woman who rented her garage to Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 when they were creating Google.