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TIL That OMG's (Oh My God) First Use Was In A Letter To Winston Churchill In 1917.

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p8gve TIL Aristotle was Alexander the Great's private tutor and from his teachings developed a love of science, particularly of medicine and botany. Alexander included botanists and scientists in his army to study the many lands he conquered.
gMeGL TIL that the Tang Dynasty (618-906 A.D.) of China was considered the golden age and they invented gun powder, made the first gas cylinder, had air conditioning, and a way to print books.
R5oGa TIL: There was a Shogun: The Musical. Written by Clavell, it was performed on Broadway for two months until a drop in tourism from The Persian Gulf War.
PPVL TIL that Astronomers had made a sweet discovery: simple sugar molecules floating in the gas around a star some 400 light-years away, suggesting the possibility of life on other planets.
LQM6d Today I learned the Panhellenic Games is the collective term for four separate sports festivals held in ancient Greece. The four Games were the Olympic, Pythian, Nemean and the Isthmian games.