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TIL - Many major pop hits of the 90s and 2000s were produced/written by the same guy

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R75P6 TIL of Adrian Carton de Wiart a British Officer who served in 3 wars; was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip and ear; survived 2 plane crashes; tunneled out of a POW camp; tore off his own fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them. He wrote in WW1 "Frankly I had enjoyed the war."
1aPN4 TIL that Leonardo Da Vinci's "The Last Supper" as it exists today is largely a modern reconstruction. The painting was already severely deteriorated within sixty years of being painted, and has since suffered flooding, bombing, French revolutionaries, a scratchy curtain and use as a prison cell.
lopyK TIL that python 3 rounds 16.5 to 16 which is mathematical rounding. This feels quite counterintuitive when you have learned bankers rounding early in school. Bankers rounding is apperently biased towards the bigger number so mathematical rounding makes more sense for greater amounts of data.
N7rA1 TIL that the fictional town of Bikini Bottom from the show SpongeBob Square Pants is shown in the series to be underneath a real place called Bikini Atoll; a former nuclear test site that is still uninhabitable today.
W7Lo4 TIL that the Goosebumps books were banned in some school libraries across the 90s for being too scary