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TIL “Roger Wilco” means “Received, Will Comply”
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TIL Newark, NJ was founded in 1666 by disgruntled Puritans from Connecticut. Wishing to start a theocracy, they named their settlement New Ark believing they were creating a new ark of the covenant. New Ark remained a Puritan theocracy until 1746 when Episcopalian missionaries built a church.
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TIL that this painting is based on an actual collection owned by Cardinal Silvio Valentio Gonzaga (1690-1756). He commissioned Giovanni Paolo Panini to commemorate his prized possessions in this painting!
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TIL Real Madrid's president didn't want to sign Ronaldinho, saying "He's so ugly that he'd sink you as a brand". Instead he signed Beckham, for he's handsome & marketable in Asia. Ronaldinho became Barcelona's star & got a standing ovation from Madrid fans for his performance in EL Clasico 2005.
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TIL on March 10, 1945, the U.S. carpet bombed Tokyo (specifically the area with homes made of wood and paper) with napalm, killing 105,400 people - putting it somewhere between the death toll of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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TIL the Vatican has Astronomical Observatories in Italy and Arizona and were involved with a project to map the stars in the late 1890s