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TIL Figures in the Sistine Chapel had fig leaves covering them for over 300 years

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x6gKk TIL that of the top 5 Serial killers with the highest known victim count, 3 are Colombian
x6E9D TIL that 1987 was the last year that vinyl records were produced for Disney Read-Along books.
DQppe TIL - the concept of animals going exinct wasn't accepted until the 1800s. Prior to this, if an extinct animal skeleton or fossil was discovered, people assumed it came from a species still around somewhere on Earth.
9Y4ep TIL that highly sensitive devices used to detect radionuclides have to be made from steel salvage from sunken WWI&II ships, as steel since then has been contaminated too much from nuclear bombs.
vN5D TIL That despite being on hard times, One of the US most decorated war veterans repeatedly turned down offers to appear in Alcohol and Tobacco commercials because he knew it would be a bad role model for young people. The soldier, Audie Murphy, had won every single US Army Award for combat in WWII.