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TIL Michelangelo was around 23 years old when he created the Pieta sculpture

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MenRb TIL in 1961 the entire U.S. figure skating team died in an airplane crash - causing a mandate still in effect that no team travelling to international competition would be allowed to fly together ever again
9Dep TIL that the reason why 1 horsepower seems so small compared to the actual power of a horse is that it factors in the time that horses need to rest.
QNRG9 TIL that in 2019, a 65-year-old man in Colorado robbed a bank, threw the money into the street while shouting "Merry Christmas!", and then calmly waited for the police at a nearby Starbucks.
g9G4 TIL the first fax machine was actually invented in 1865. 11 years before Bell would invent the telephone.
0d46M TIL Alexander Hamilton was the first major American politician publicly involved in a sex scandal. He had an affair with 23-year-old Maria Reynolds, whose husband was aware of the infidelity and likely orchestrated the whole thing to regularly extort blackmail money from Hamilton.