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TIL that Michelangelo actually intended his famous David statue to be viewed from what we consider to be the side. It presents David as a much more menacing figure, facing down Goliath. Part of the genius of the sculpture is that viewing it from the side suddenly lets you see him as a gentler figure

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oLLr TIL that an Alabama bloodhound joined a half marathon after her owner let her out to go pee. She ran the entire 13.1 miles and finished 7th.
x6Y1 TIL there has only been one known albino gorilla. His name was Snowflake.
kJWE4 TIL George Michael worked and re-worked his song "Careless Whisper" for 2 and half year's before finally releasing it. He went thru 8 saxophonists before finally settling on Steve Gregory who was able to play the riff exactly as Michael heard it in his head. The song topped charts in ten countries
nW9Qo TIL a study found that George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire contains over 2,000 named characters with over 41,000 interactions b/w them. Yet the most prominent characters avg out to have only 150 others to keep track of, which is the same number the avg human brain has evolved to deal with.
71Pp TIL Dust from the Sahara desert has produced a massive carbon sink in the Bahamas, and humans could mimic nature by artificially repeating the process elsewhere