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TIL that photography in the Sistine Chapel has been banned since 1980 when the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) obtained exclusive rights to the paintings in return for a $4 million restoration project.

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vMK7 TIL after selling Minecraft to Microsoft for $2.5 billion, game creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson bought a $70 million 8-bedroom, 15-bath mansion in Beverly Hills, the most expensive house in the city’s history. He also outbid Jay-Z and Beyoncé, who were also looking to buy the house.
l0OV TIL The cannons used in Human cannonball shows are not really cannons but catapults. Fireworks and gunpowder is used to trick people.
66dZ TIL that atheists in the USA have disapproval rates higher than those of Muslims and homosexuals
87w4 TIL When George Lucas was filming the Sandcrawler (in A New Hope) in Tunisia, the Tunisian government asked him to move it away from the Libyan border after Libya threatened military action, thinking it was a large war vehicle.
PYVBe TIL that grey wolves and dogs share 99.9% of their DNA and can breed with each other.