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TIL The image format "PNG" is pronounced "ping" officially

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m1jLx TIL that in 1926, the Poltiburo of the Soviet Union was made up of seven men, Joseph Stalin, Nikolai Bukharin, Mikhail Tomsky, Grigory Zinoviev, Leon Trotsky, Lev Kamenev, and Alexei Rykov. By 1940, Stalin was the only one of them left alive, having killed all of the other members.
VP98 TIL that Today all Dutch trains are powered 100% by wind energy
m1rBx TIL that EU plans to subsidise small-scale sustainable farming and young farmers
kOOjE TIL of the Cistus plant which can self-ignite on fire under hot dry conditions, due to oils in its leaves.
K4bQ TIL Allen Ginsberg was a member of NAMBLA(North American Man/Boy Love Association), which is as bad as it sounds, as it is a pedophile and pederasty advocacy organization in the United States.