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TIL that the town where Michelangelo was born was called Caprese

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Lk15P TIL that in the late 1700s and 1800s, there was widespread panic about the evils of book-reading, which was described as “an outrage on decency and common sense”. People were concerned that avid novel-readers were ‘addicted’ and were becoming anti-social.
VB5jB TIL By the End of WW2, Canada had the 4th largest Airforce and 3rd Largest Navy in the World
prvG TIL the term “meme” was coined in 1976 by Richard Dawkins as a method of explaining how cultural traits are passed on and popularized
e0nZD TIL that Sloth from the Goonies played for several NFL teams before his acting career, was a raging drug addict, and died at 38.
J1Q68 TIL that Frankfurt has a neighborhood w a Mediterranean microclimate, due to sunlight reflected off the river and wind-resistance, where even palms and bananas grow called The Nizza