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TIL that the town where Michelangelo was born was called Caprese

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lPo5 TIL New York Times Reporter William Seabrook, in the interests of research, obtained a chunk of human meat from the body of a healthy human killed in an accident, then cooked and ate it. He reported, “It was like good, fully developed veal, not young, but not yet beef.
JKEl TIL the Italian alphabet only has 21 letters. If the letters j, k, w, x or y appear in a word, it is because the word has been borrowed from a different language.
YGx TIL in Germany there exists the Waldkindergarten: preschools held entirely outdoors in a forest, regardless of weather conditions
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rRerd TIL the non-Canadian born players on the 1978-79 Montréal Canadiens were born in Taiwan and Venezuela