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TIL Italian painter Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino also known as Rafael died on his birthday, from exhaustion brought on by unceasing romantic interests.

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a8D6A TIL There are more than 650 American cities that share their name with those found in the U.K. As British colonists set up home in America, they brought with them the names of their hometowns and cities.
XEKJ8 TIL that many languages from northwestern Europe all the way to southern Asia and India, including English, Greek, and Sanskrit, are all descended from a common language called Proto-Indo-European, which is believed to have been spoken in what is today southwestern Russia between 7500 and 4500 BC.
M7geV TIL a millipede species that actually has 1000+ legs was first described in 2021, living 50 - 200 ft (15 - 60 m) underground in Western Australia
XE89j TIL According to the convention of Geneva an ejected pilot in the air is not a combatant and therefore attacking him is a war crime.
ZOaD TIL that Henry Ford published “The International Jew”, a 4-volume, 80-chapter chronicle of the “Jewish menace”