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W7o9X TIL The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci is not in a frame. It's painted on the wall of a dining room for monks in Milano.
R7mLa TIL PowerPoint is Turing Complete
OoBLY TIL Yea and Nay don't mean exactly the same as Yes and No. They were for questions posed in the positive whereas yes and no were for questions in the negative. So answering "yes" to "don't you like it?" always meant you did like it. This removes ambiguity.
5YrRB TIL that there is a Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame that was formed in 2013, honoring the greatest fictional athletes of all time. Inductees include Rocky Balboa, Happy Gilmore, Mr. Miyagi, and Benjamin Franklin "Benny the Jet" Rodriguez.
beQE TIL - William Shatner purposefully wasted time and ruined the alternate take to ensure the first interracial kiss on television happened.