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KOLdG TIL those floaty things in your eye that disappears whenever you try to get a closer look, only to reappear as soon as you shift your glance are called Muscae volitantes, Latin for "flying flies”
MePda TIL philosopher, architect and polymath Robert Hooke invented an acoustic string telephone as early as 1667.
M77B TIL John Adams wrote in the MA Constitution that “ it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences”
78MyP TIL: Apple seeds DO NOT yield the same apple it came from... every apple seed yields a completely unique apple. If you want the exact same apple, you have to cut a branch off the existing apple tree and graft in onto another tree.
kJ0Qg TIL in 1930s, Hollywood self censored films to appease Nazi party. Negative depictions of Germany was deleted and any portrayal of Jewish persecution was banned by studios.