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TIL that Roberto Benigni, writer and director of Life Is Beautiful, was inspired to make the film based on his father’s recollection of his two-year experience in a concentration camp, which he told humorously to help him cope.

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pm7Z TIL peeing outside could make you a sex offender
PYrDL TIL that Github have an archive program, where they physically store almost all influential open-source projects in the Arctic World Archive (AWA), a project similar to the Svalbard Seed Vault. The intention is to aid future historians and technologists for at least a 1000 years.
0mBL TIL that Jesus was described as a short, bald, hook-nosed, ugly man without a beard by all his apostles. His European features were actually modeled after Cesare Borgia, Pope Alexander VI’s murderous son.
W7gyX TIL As of 2018, only 2% of English adults aged 18–24 belonged to the Church of England while 70% claimed to have no religion.
9wZXM TIL about Juliana, a dog that was awarded a Blue Cross medal during WWII. She saved her owner’s life by peeing on an incendiary bomb.