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TIL In 1988 Nancy Knight, a scientist at the National Center for Atmosphere Research in Boulder, Colorado, USA, found two identical snowflakes.

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OPP7 TIL Rolling Stone gave many artists bad reviews, then changed to good reviews after they became famous. Examples include The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, The Beach Boys, Nirvana, Weezer, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, Outkast and also Queen.
Lk050 TIL of co-emperors Caracalla & Geta,who hated each other.At a meeting set by their mother, Caracalla had Geta killed.Caracalla then killed any who knew Greta.Over 20,000 were killed.It became a capital crime to even say "Greta".Years later he sacked a city because they held a satire of the murder.
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0wMdN TIL that when they started Apple, the amount of memory to hold a song cost about a million dollars.