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TIL that sperm donation has a height requirement

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7800O TIL the word "bundt" is trademarked (oddly, for the pan, but not the cake itself)
DQQRv TIL the painting Las Meninas is one of the most analyzed works in western art. Critics have called it the “theology of painting” and “true philosophy of art”. It’s influenced many artists including Goya and Sargent. Picasso was so obsessed with the painting he executed 58 different interpretations.
9YNNQ TIL a local Chinese man has prevented over 300 suicides from the Yangtze River Bridge. Chen Si visits the bridge every day and offers help to anyone in distress, including followup phone calls and even occasionally offering his spare bedroom.
JYVg1 TIL Due to Galileo's training in Renaissance art and an understanding of chiaroscuro (a technique for shading light and dark) he quickly understood that the moon shadows he was seeing were actually mountains and craters. From his sketches, he made estimates of their heights and depths
9YGa6 TIL the Olympic Games paused for 1500 years and then resumed in 1896.