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TIL Francisco Goya, depressed and having survived 2 life threatening illnesses in his later years, decorated his house with 14 "black paintings" with bleak themes. The famous "Saturn Devouring His Son" was a mural in his dining room

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oBdE7 TIL that Indian English has a word for a hundred thousand: Lakh
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