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TIL In Japan, houses depreciate like cars, and after as little as 20 years are considered worthless enough to be demolished and replaced.

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Yp9KA TIl along with reforming the church, Luther reformed the musical world by expanding Choral music, establishing schools for music exploration, and exploring new musical instruments. Future musicians such as Bach drew inspiration from his new approach to start their own musical language revolutions.
ADw5x TIL I learned you can move youtube subtitles by dragging them.
v1MjL TIL Nasal decongestants works by narrowing the blood vessels in the nasal passages. Overusing them may cause congestion to get worse or it may improve but come back
GZxN TIL: An individual horse has a peak power output of 14.9 horsepower
Wkow4 TIL that "Louis Le Prince" was actually the first person to invent a motion picture camera, 3 years before Thomas Edison, but was not able to publicly showcase the device as when he was going to retrieve it, he entered a train and was never seen again.