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TIL da Vinci was given a vineyard as payment for making The Last Supper, which was bombed in WW2, and the DNA of those vines is being used to recreate the wines he had

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p81ZZ TIL that Every year during the summer and winter solstices, Luxor's Karnak Temple witnesses an astronomical event. The sun rises between the portals of the western gate of the temple and falls perfectly perpendicular, lighting up the sanctuary of AmunRaa at the centre of the temple.
9xoB TIL there’s a bird that migrates from Alaska to Africa and back every year
wbdE TIL Baby elephants suck their trunks for comfort just like human babies suck their thumb
WkX49 TIL that Vincent Smith II, aged 29, died when he fell into a eight-foot vat that was mixing and melting chocolate to be used in Hershey's candy.
nW9Lb TIL for over 100 years the Belgian Army has has a service that's been removing a yearly average of 250 tons of WWI/WWII unexploded ordinance from around Belgium.