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TIL Hollywood elites signed a petition in support of Roman Polanski

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78V8M TIL Rembrandt's painting Bathsheba, an artwork famous for depicting a woman with breast cancer, was proven to not depict the disease after all, as scientists, after performing multiple simulations, concluded that the tone of blue the lesion has can only occur when the lesion is located at the skin.
jNdLa TIL In 1989, two teenagers found a new born baby abandoned on a doorstep, swaddled in towels with her umbilical cord still attached. They handed her over to authorities. She was less than 12 hours old. 20 years later, the abandoned child- now grown up, tracked them down and thanked them.
KO6xa TIL There are approximately 7000 languages and one dies every 14 days
Y708G TIL Dennis from It's Always Sunny was a vegan for years. He recently moved to a plant forward diet.
awvJM TIL Gladiators didn't normally fight to the death, as they were too expensive to prepare and maintain, making it to risky of a business to sustain. For there to be a fight to the death, a sponsor would have to pay extra and also compensate the lanista for the lost gladiator.