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TIL No one really knows where strawberries got their name

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x60N5 TIL of Giovanni Vigliotto, a serial bigamist who married up to 105 women. He defrauded them of their money and possessions, which he acquired by convincing them that they were moving far away. He made off with their belongings in a removal van and sold them at flea markets.
VjnD TIL the painter Raphael snuck into the Sistine Chapel to look at the unfinished work while Michelangelo was gone, and upon seeing the paintings, went back to a completed painting of his own at the Church of Sant'Agostino, scraped it off the wall, and started completely over.
0dew1 TIL that the youngest person to ever achieve nuclear fusion was just 12-years-old.
Z5R4 TIL there was a British TV show called “Sex Box”, where couples went into a box on stage in front of a studio audience, and had sex. And then came out and talked about the sex they just had with a panel of sexperts, including Dan Savage.
9EBB TIL in 2009, a hard ground ball hit Adrián Beltré in the crotch which landed him on the 15-day disabled list. In his first game back from the DL, teammate Ken Griffey Jr. conspired with those responsible for the PA system to have Beltré’s at-bat intro music be the waltz from The Nutcracker Suite