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TIL One of Niccolo Machiavelli's many talents was improvised song writing: his friends would try to challenge his rhyming skills by opening a random page of any random Latin poet and asking him to translate and turn into into a song, which he was able to do on the spot while playing the lira

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QN7WL TIL that the 428 Cobra Jet, one of Ford's most legendary high performance engines, was created by accident. It all started with a careless mechanic, a blown engine, and a resourceful shop owner. The resulting mishmash of components created such a beast that Ford itself decided to build it.
9wl0p TIL Tupac Amura Shakur (2Pac), was not named that way right away. The first few days of his life his official registered name was Lesane Parish Crooks.
6ELKm TIL In 2015, Hashima Island was added to the UNESCO WHC as part of the Meiji Revolution, but was also the site of Korean forced labor. Korea withdrew its opposition after Japan's promise to take measures to remember victims. Immediately after approval, the Japanese FM publicly denied forced labor.
78MXZ TIL in 2007, a woman successfully appealed her case after being sentenced for breastfeeding her infant while driving on the Ohio Turnpike because her car was registered in Michigan and the judge ruled that the state law forbidding breastfeeding while driving only applied to cars registered in Ohio.
VM8VZ TIL That the NFL's Patriots and Seahawks almost played an NFL game in China in 2007 called the: "China Bowl".