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TIL that when construction of Florence Cathedral began in 1296, its designers planned a massive dome even though no one knew how to build it. More than a century later, Filippo Brunelleschi solved the

TIL that role playing games like D&D, can be used in therapy for things such as anxiety.

TIL that CERN physicists wrote parody lyrics for Howie Day’s 2004 hit “Collide” from the perspective of a proton in the Large Hadron Collider. Day saw their parody on Twitter and contacted CERN himsel