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TIL of an elegy “Requiem” written over three decades and is known as the best known poetry work about Soviet Great Terror.

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GA7GE TIL That the Hallway (as an architectural feature) was first recorded in 1597
VMMR8 TIL Humans actually emit light (but very dim)
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w7E8 TIL the World Trade Center still exists in the Muppet Christmas Movie when an angel shows Kermit the Frog what the world would be like if he hadn’t been born
yVGLw TIL that when Andre the giant passed away there was no crematorium large enough in France so his body had to be flown to America