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TIL that Michelangelo spent two months hiding in the underground chamber while evading a death sentence ordered by the Pope

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epdJ5 TIL that the actual landmass the state of Rhode Island is named after is more commonly known as Aquidneck Island.
vZdB TIL: Shark teeth are actually scales; that’s why they can infinitely grow them back
DQNdJ TIL that an insurance agent in Singapore had poached more than 200 agents to join a rival insurance company and was ordered by court to pay $8.5 million to his former insurance company
D6Oj TIL Jimi Hendrix was discharged from the army due to sleeping on duty and being caught masturbating.
6EPMZ TIL of William James Sidis, a child prodigy who able to read the New York Times by the age of two, got into Harvard aged 12, and had an IQ of 250-300. He lived his adult live in relative seclusion and died (a virgin) of a cerebral hemorrhage, aged 46.