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TIL Michelangelo was once commissioned to build a snowman.

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EgMo0 TIL the Battle of Hastings in 1066 between the Normans & Anglo-Saxons lasted "unusually long for a medieval battle" even though it only lasted roughly nine hours (from 9am to around 6pm).
dDwd8 TIL About Hart Island. Located in Long Island Sound the island has seen many uses including as a POW camp, as an anti-aircraft missile battery site and a drug rehab facility. However it's primary fame is as NYC's Potter's Field with an estimated one million burials having taken place there.
6ELLW TIL Neuroscience theory of “mirror neurons" suggests positive benefits of social interaction for teamwork
8LmV TIL that during the Rape of Nanking, the Japanese took several thousand wounded and sick soldiers, as well as old and feeble refugees whom they had captured, tied them up, and pushed them into a river. They then threw straw doused with kerosene into the river and burned them all to death.
R55J9 TIL that in 1953, a member of the Indiana Textbook Commission tried to ban mentions of Robin Hood because he promoted communism