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TIL: Emigrate refers to the country you're leaving, whilst immigrate refers to the country you're entering

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PYDeG TIL that the flash from cameras does not harm artwork. In a 1995 study, the London National Gallery concluded that camera flash is dangerous after measuring the color change in test pigments that were exposed to over 1,000,000 flashes. However, the control group showed the same amount of change.
7re0M TIL Robin Williams and Christopher Reeve became close friends after meeting at Julliard in 1973. “Occasionally Robin would need to switch off and have a serious conversation with someone, and I was always ready to listen... This has remained true for twenty-five years.”
rR7e0 TIL there is a disorder that makes the person with it unable to see anything in motion.
wLVo6 TIL Winston Churchill had so much respect for the American Constitution that he called it the best constitution ever written in English
5YjRB TIL all current Purple Heart medals awarded still today were created for the Japanese invasion during WWII that never happened