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TIL The feeling of people that children “these days” are spoiled can be dated all the back to at least Socrates

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eB1b TIL that early Renaissance artists were electrified when a young Roman fell through a cleft in a hill and rediscovered Nero’s Golden House. Subsequent tourists to the spot include Michelangelo, Raphael, Casanova, and the Marquis de Sade, all of whom left graffiti in the ruins.
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