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TIL Michelangelo wrote over 300 poems

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loadN TIL that Nintendo existed at the same time as the Ottoman Empire. Japanese company was founded in 1889, Ottoman Empire dissolved only 34 years after that.
wbOJ TIL that the Chief Translator for the European Parliament can speak 32 different languages fluently
rNky0 TIL Janson-de-Sailly was a French lawyer who, upon learning that his wife had a lover, disinherited her and bequethed his property to the state to build a boys' high school in Paris
P5rJ TIL Marvel Comics created a superhero, Blue Ear, just for a 4 year old boy who was uncomfortable wearing his prescribed hearing aids. The boy told his mom “Superheroes don’t wear hearing aids” so Marvel created one.
J1gJl TIL the concept of romantic-sexual kissing was not practiced in the Americas prior to European contact. Anthropologists theorize a link between social complexity and romantic-sexual kissing, and many modern hunter-gatherer societies still do not practice romantic-sexual kissing between partners.