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Today I Learned about Zone Rouge that stretches past Verdun to Lille on the NE French border. It is an uninhabitable area dating back to WW1

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4aPw TIL that Axl Rose, the lead singer of Guns N’ Roses, has/had a vocal range of over 5 octaves. He also has a lower baritone that Barry White, and can reach notes higher than Tina Turner and Beyoncé.
b9koN TIL that to avoid the censure of his father, a railroad worker who disapproved of poets, the teenage writer Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto wrote and published poetry under a pseudonym: Pablo Neruda. He would later legally adopt the name and go on to win a Nobel Prize in Literature.
nWn8B TIL To get a convincing performance out of the boy that played the kidnapped child in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Spielberg&Co. wore gorilla and clown costumes off-camera to surprise him, and slowly opened presents to get his wide-eyed amazed reaction to seeing aliens in his kitchen.
OGb6 TIL that a species of bird, the European Magpie, is the only non-mammal to have ever passed a self-recognition test, and has a level of intelligence comparable to that of a chimpanzee.
rRJ14 TIL Carbon-dated around the early 15th century, the Voynich manuscript is written in an untranslatable language. Studied by many professional and amateur cryptographers, the manuscript has never been demonstrably deciphered and claims that it has been decoded have never been independently verified.