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TIL The image format "PNG" is pronounced "ping" officially
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TIL that in 1975 Air France commissioned to French composer Franck Pourcel an anthem for their new supersonic plane, the Concorde
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TIL about the great African American migration. Between 1910 and 1970, 6 million black Americans moved out of the rural south to urban northeast, Midwest, and west due to segregation and discrimination in the south.
KYX76
TIL that in 1951, the future President of Botswana (then a member of the Botswanan Royal Family) and his wife were exiled to the UK for 5 years, as the South African government disapproved of their interracial marriage and the UK did not want to imperil their access to cheap resources in SA.
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TIL that Beethoven tore up the title page to his symphony "Eroica" upon hearing Napoleon proclaim himself Emperor, hating all things French ever since.
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TIL That due to the cosmological principle, any spot in space and time can be the centre of the universe.