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TIL a fire in 2008 destroyed the master recordings of hundreds of artists, including John Coltrane, Joni Mitchell, R.E.M. and Eminem

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P1Qjn TIL that Pythagoras was not the first in record to come up with the idea that the Earth is round due to the shape of the moon. It is not known if Pythagoras actually said this. This is a clerical error made by Thomas Heath in 1915, and has been perpetuated by BBC, NASA and Encyclopedia Britannica.
JY9G1 TIL people were still using the phrase 'abracadabra' in the late 1600s to try to ward off the plague in London
KeAa TIL: Brazil imported 11 times more slaves than the United States; Rio alone was home to more slaves than the entire American South
jwxp TIL Several UFO sightings were recorded throughout the Roman Republic/Empire from 214 BC
RPwj TIL The US built a gigantic concrete dome to cover up one of its nuclear test craters