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TIL that the town where Michelangelo was born was called Caprese

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WkEvA TIL the Tesla Model X has a “Bioweapon Defense Mode” that purifies the air within the vehicle and keeps all harmful particles out in the event of an apocalyptic event
DQeBD TIL that the film version of the musical "In the Heights" nearly wasn't produced because Universal wanted a bankable star in the cast. While the film was in limbo, its writer Lin-Manuel Miranda went on vacation and bought a copy of Ron Chernow's "Hamilton", which inspired the show
vPLMB TIL of Major General Sir Nils Olav III, Baron of the Bouvet Islands and colonel-in-chief of the Norwegian King's Guard who is a king penguin residing in Edinburgh Zoo, Scotland. He is officially recognised by the Guinness World Records as the world's highest-ranking penguin.
neE9o TIL that when America's first rocket scientist, Robert Goddard, theorized that rockets could reach the moon, the New York Times harshly criticized him and wrote that he "lacked the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." 49 years later, Apollo 11 succeeded and the NYT published a retraction.
X07Y6 TIL that six doctors devised an experiment where they each swallow a Lego head as a means to determine the typical transit time of a commonly swallowed object. They then presented their findings with a 'Found and Retrieved Time' aka 'FART' score. The FART score averaged 1.71 days