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TIL: That in the Battle Of Athens TN (1946), veterans rebelled against corrupt local government

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4X5wX TIL the Adoration Of The Magi is an unfinished work by Leonardo da Vinci commissioned by a Florentine monastery in 1480. Consistent with his proneness to abandon projects, he eventually grew bored with it, simply left, and moved to Milan. The monastery paid Filippino Lippi to complete it instead.
QvDa TIL Christopher Tolkien, son of Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien, has said of the films, “They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25”..[..]..“The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing.”
78OmM TIL Cass Elliot died in Harry Nilsson's apartment, and four years later Keith Moon died in the same room
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