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TIL that the middle finger of Galileo Galilei is on display at the Museo Galileo in Florence.

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pYddA TIL Time did not originally name a "Man of the Year" in 1941; Dumbo the elephant, whose film was released that year, was supposed to be "Mammal of the Year". Then Pearl Harbor happened and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was quickly anointed "Man of the Year" (for a record third time).
mxOmE TIL of Arthur Chu, a Jeopardy! contestant who won 11 games by picking a new category after every correct answer to throw off his opponents
B6dW TIL school meals in Finland are free for the students; schools are required to give students 3 vegan choices; vegetables must cover half the plate; and students can have as much milk as they want because it’s fat free or skimmed.
dW4K TIL there was a woman named Veronica Seider had vision 20x better than average. She could identify people more than a mile (1.6km) away.
4krwo TIL Abraham Lincoln’s son, Robert Todd Lincoln, grew to become the US Secretary of War (1881-1885) and lived to the age of 82, dying in 1926