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TIL that Magellan's expedition, which began with approximately 270 crew members aboard five ships, concluded nearly three years later with only 18 survivors returning on a single vessel.

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0wWWR TIL of Albert Spaggiari, a French criminal known as the mastermind of the 1976 Société Générale bank heist, which at the time was the worlds greatest bank heist. He was eventually caught but made a dramatic courtroom escape and remained free for the rest of his life
MeRnb TIL that "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" is not a quote from some ancient philosopher or legal code. It is a quote from the 1982 Star Trek film The Wrath of Khan.
8Jj4 TIL Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci both lived in Rome at the same time and really disliked each other.
jN7mn TIL Early in the development of Disney's Pinocchio (1940), Pleasure Island (where the boys turn into the donkeys) was initially called Boobyland.
DEEP TIL Napoleon said of torture: “It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile. The poor wretches say anything that comes into their mind and what they think the interrogator wishes to know.”