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TIL The Starry Night depicts Vincent Van Gogh's view from the Saint Paul-de-Mausole asylum.

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wonD7 TIL a 20-yr-old man died 10 hrs after eating unrefrigerated, 5-day-old spaghetti with tomato sauce that he had reheated at school. His autopsy highlighted the importance of refrigerating food: the warmer temp allowed bacteria in the pasta to grow & produce a toxin that contributed to his death.
OoXE6 TIL that the Superman actor Henry Cavil has been an avid PC gamer since childhood and even missed the call to play Superman because he was playing the game World of Warcraft
Yp1Xx TIL that during the beginning of invention of electric appliances. They experimented with electric tablecloths. You could basically plug in an outlet anywhere on the table and the lightbulb would light up. Only downside was that you couldn’t spill any liquids on it
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