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

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ADgXn TIL the first area-accurate world map was created in 1999 when Japanese architect Hajime Narukawa invented the Authagraph Projection, which divides a spherical surface into 96 triangles, transfers them to a tetrahedron while maintaining area proportions, and unfolds into a rectangle.
Lk5Jm TIL that tens of thousands of North Korean workers are estimated to be employed in Russian logging camps, where they reportedly have only two days of rest per year and face punishments for failures. Their salary is held in North Korean controlled accounts and most is kept by the regime.
e0o4 TIL the US president earns a $400,000 annual salary, along with a $50,000 annual expense account, a $100,000 nontaxable travel account and $19,000 for entertainment.
9O7G TIL that King George VI was appalled when the South African government instructed him to only shake hands with white people while on his visit there in 1947. He referred to his South African bodyguards as “the Gestapo”.
VmQp TIL the Comic book code of 1954 specified that “Females shall be drawn realistically without exaggeration of any physical qualities.”