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TIL Machiavelli hated the clergy. Bored at work at a monastery, he amused himself by asking his boss to send him fat envelops stuffed with paper and instruct messengers to run, just to mess with the priests and make them think there's something important going on that they're not privy to

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5VxYD TIL that an Illinois high school English teacher told two students, "Neither one of you will ever learn to write". Robert St. John, one of the students, became a famous journalist with many news scoops, including the Japanese surrender in WW2. The other student was Ernest Hemingway.
awa4J TIL 50s Movie Director Ed Wood was a secret cross dresser whose SO did not know, he made and starred in a movie about about a secret cross dresser whose SO did not know and cast his real life SO as the movie character's SO. She eventually rejected him in real life, just as her movie character did.
80JK TIL that in Canada, there are currently NO shelters for male victims of violence or sexual abuse and that Earl Silverman, the previous owner and manager of the country’s only male shelter, committed suicide when he was forced to sell his house and shelter due to lack of funding.
4X5e6 TIL That Mexican music was very popular in Yugoslavia during the '60s. With young people dressing up in mariachi outfits.
xV79o TIL whales earwax acts as a hearing aid. The wax has a similar density to water and allows sound to travel through the ear canal into the inner ear unimpeded—something that would be impossible if the ear was filled with air.