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TIL Leonardo Da Vinci was an illegitimate child

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l7QwA TIL in 2007, St. Louis Cardinals baseball player Juan Encarnación was in the on-deck circle and was hit in the face by a foul ball from his teammate. He sustained multiple fractures to his left eye socket and an injury to the eye itself. He never played Major League Baseball again.
e0PE6 TIL that in 1962, elephant bones were discovered under the Vatican. Decades later, it was discovered that they were the bones of Pope Leo X's pet elephant Hanno, who died in 1516 after doctors (in an attempt to treat constipation) inserted a gold enema up its rectum.
lob5N TIL Kenney Jones, the man who replaced Keith Moon in The Who, was with Moon during the last night of his life.
ZDga TIL of Gregory W. Nemitz, a man who in 2000, registered land on the asteroid 433 Eros. The land contained $492 Quintilian worth of platinum. And, when NASA landed a probe on a place on the asteroid that he had called ‘Parking Space 29’, Nemitz sent NASA a $20 parking ticket.
PYNBw Today I learned that the Irish call the cupboard that the domestic hot water tank is in the “hot press”