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TIL the divide between West Germany and East Germany was so sharply defined it lead to houses and buildings being split down the middle

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Gj6E TIL that Joseph Haydn, a classical music composer, wrote a musical piece in which the musicians gradually leave the stage until 2 violins are left in the end
rNalo TIL: In 2013, after Zimbabwe finished paying the salaries of public workers, the government had only $217 in the entire country's bank balance due to decades of financial mismanagement and 231 million % inflation rate. The value equates to 1 .25 carat diamond.
gp8b TIL that it has been theorised that the Pillars of Creation, made famous by the Hubble Telescope, may no longer exist. They may have been destroyed by a supernova shockwave around 6000 years ago, but the light from this hasn’t reached Earth, so we won’t see it for another 1000 years.
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rN5w1 TIL: Some consider the letter 'R' a vowel