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TIL that the painter Caravaggio's real name was Michelangelo.

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b6J6a TIL Ezekiel Hart was twice elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada but was denied his seat on both occasions for being Jewish. Opponents to Hart wrote a poem declaring a Jew in the Assembly as more foolish than Caligula's appointing his horse a Roman consul.
WkyYY TIL 60% of Jamaicans would prefer to become a British territory again
n1D7 TIL California has a recycle rate of nearly 100% on aluminum cans, due to fraudulent recycling rings
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