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TIL that Karl Blossfeldt, an early pioneer in macro photography, captured astonishing images of plants and nature at 30x magnification in the 1920s.

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oR55E TIL The Pontine Islands, an archipelago off the west coast of Italy, was where both Roman Emperors and Fascist leaders sent exiles.
m1Ppv TIL that powerful jets of high-energy particles created by supermassive black holes must be pointed at Earth to be called a Blazar
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