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TIL Michelangelo created a sleeping Cupid figure and treated it with acidic earth to appear ancient. He then sold it to a dealer who then sold it to Cardinal Riario of San Giorgio who later learned of the fraud and demanded his money back. Michelangelo was permitted to keep his share of the money.

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6DrW TIL that in Veterans Stadium, the visiting football team could see the Eagles Cheerleaders’ dressing room through a hole in the wall
MeWZa TIL of Doozy Bots, an early attempt in 1991 to bring the Gundam anime franchise to the US. It involved a "Professor Doozy" turning a group of kids into various robots to fight other robots that went haywire. No networks picked up the series.
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b6o8a TIL It took 20,000 hours of underwater repairs but the United States managed to refloat a majority of the battleships sunk at Pearl Harbor. Recovered ships including the USS West Virginia, USS California, USS Tennessee, USS Maryland, and USS Pennsylvania all fought in the Philippines.