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TIL Michelangelo wrote over 300 poems

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BrN7x TIL that JFK ordered 1200 Cuban cigars just a day before declaring the Cuban trade embargo.
dKEd TIL Time passes in the Judge Dredd comic in real time, so as a year passes in real life a year goes by in the comic. The first Dredd story, published in 1977, was set in 2099, and stories published in 2013 are set in 2135.
GA87 TIL the wheel was patented in 2001
VD9B TIL there is an English sentence that, when spelled backwards, has the same meaning in Latin.
grm59 TIL Jingle Bells was originally written to be a Thanksgiving song and the lyrics don't make any reference to Christmas, instead focusing on sleigh racing.