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TIL that time dilation is the reason we can use muon tomography to scan the Great Pyramids. From their point of view, muons only live a very short time. But they go so fast that from our point of view, they live long enough to penetrate the atmosphere and large objects.

TIL the same artist, Jacque Louis David, painted the Death of Marat, the Oath of the Horatii, and two of the best-known portraits of Napoleon

TIL: Mercia was one of the three notable Anglic kingdoms founded after as Sub-Roman Britain was settled by Anglo-Saxons. It was centred around the River Trent and its tributaries, in a region now known as the Midlands of England.

TIL Before he was the best-selling author of The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown tried his luck as a musician. In 1994 he released an album called Angels & Demons—a title he reused for a 2000 novel.

TIL that (UK) Pelican crossings have nothing to do with birds. They’re called Pelicon crossings which stands for people light controlled

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