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TIL: Rome's colossal statue of Leonardo da Vinci has a secret compartment that went undiscovered for over 45 years. Sculpture-restoration workers found documents inside.

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ZpmoG TIL that Julián Álvarez at 23 years of age, won the Treble (three major trophies in a single season) & the World Cup in the same season, making him the first football player in history to do so.
mWlY TIL One out of every 21 New Yorkers is a millionaire.
o74R TIL In 1993, Dateline NBC ran a story on the danger of Gm pickups with sidesaddle gas tanks exploding upon impact. NBC was forced to apologize after it was revealed that they had staged the explosions in their crash test footage.
KOwow TIL Ray Combs' final Family Feud he told a player that got 0 points "I've done this show for six years .. this is the first time I had a person that actually got no points and I think it's a damn fine way to go out. Thought I was a loser until you walked up here, and made me feel like a man"
Nok6 TIL that the first recorded utterance attributable to a native of Scotland was made when a Roman lady criticized the sexual morals of Caledonian women, and a Caledonian woman replied: “We consort openly with the best of men while you allow yourselves to be debauched in private by the worst”