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TIL in Brazil, Playstation 4 will cost over $1,800.

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Eako TIL Michelangelo didn’t want to paint the Sistine Chapel and only did so because he was ordered by the Pope. This was arranged by a rival who wanted Michelangelo to fail and get banished from Rome.
Me9jW TIL of Mark Hoffmann, a notorious forger, noted for creating historical records pertaining to the Latter Day Saints (Mormonism). As his forgeries contained details that contradicted official teachings, church officials often purchased them to prevent their release.
gMyRX TIL after her death, Mercy Brown's heart and liver were burned, and the ashes mixed into a tonic that was given to her sick brother to drink. Her father believed that she was a vampire and that the tonic would cure the brother of tuberculosis. It didn't; he died two months later.
eYg TIL Economic researchers at Yale managed to successfully train Capuchin monkeys to understand and use currency. The result? The monkeys used it to buy….sex.
1QbX TIL: Thousands of lions are being bred on farms to be shot by wealthy foreign trophy-hunters.