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TIL The most popular sport in Ireland (gaelic football) is a completely amateur sport. The players play in front of 80,000 people and don’t get paid.

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GAX81 TIL that Michelangelo wrote a poem about how much he hated painting the Sistine Chapel, which translates as such: ‘I’ve already grown a goiter from this torture, hunched up here like a cat in Lombardy (or anywhere else where the stagnant water’s poison).’
9GWQ TIL the United States Environmental Protection Agency has a ‘Most Wanted’ list. Each person on the list is wanted by the EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division. Included is a CEO of a mining company wanted for dumping arsenic and lead on public lands, currently believed to be hiding in Vancouver.
4XgRX TIL when Amiens Cathedral was about to collapse (ca. 1500), a huge iron chain was installed inside the walls while still red hot. It pulled the stone arches back into shape as it contracted and cooled.
l7OGB TIL: Sweet Potatoes are a commercial crop in Ontario, Canada
VBQD0 TIL that worldwide spending on digital transformation is expected to hit a 1.8 trillion USD in 2024 and then soar even higher to 2.8 trillion USD by 2025. Also, almost seven out of ten workers have too much work to do every day.