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Today I Learned English Romanticism was born from a serious Germanomania that inspired Poets, Novelists, and Philosophers

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A7O4 TIL The term Smoke testing comes from the initial test of a circuit board. If there’s no smoke coming out when it’s first powered up, then the board’s probably okay.
0wZ05 TIL that almost a month after the Titanic sank, a lifeboat from it containing three decomposed bodies was found 200 miles away
95Qr TIL that the American Cancer Society has admitted that untreated Cancer goes away naturally 30% of the time.
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