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

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lAj1 TIL that It’s A Wonderful Life was a box office flop that caused the sale of its production company. It only became popular after the copyright holders forgot to file for a renewal and TV stations could play it all day and night without paying for it.
R59ja TIL that the opposite of exorcism is adorcism: the practice of inviting positive spirits into places or people.
mJYv TIL income inequality in the United States fluctuates by region and the region where inequality is the worst is Washington DC.
VB1OD TIL about the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, a non-stop, single-handed, round-the-world yacht race held in 1968-69. Of the 9 participants: 4 retired before leaving the Atlantic Ocean, one retired after Cape Horn, one sank, one committed suicide, one abandoned it, and only one completed the race
RZbQ TIL Johnny Cash and his first wife Vivian named their daughter, Roseanne, after Johnny’s nickname for Vivian’s boobs: Rose and Anne