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TIL there is a word that is the opposite of sparkle and it is “darkle”

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R58eQ TIL of the Ondioline, one of the forerunners to the analog synthesizer, first conceived in 1939 by George's Jenny. The instrument was featured prominently on dozens of early Motown recordings, including (You're My) Dream Come True.
a8o49 TIL a Canadian doctor named Norman Bethune basically invented mobile blood transfusions during the Spanish Civil War, then went to China and became a hero there for bringing frontline medical care to rural areas
pYNDb TIL there's a "grammar vigilante" who goes out in the dead of night correcting street signs and shop fronts where the apostrophes are in the wrong place
yNnp TIL that the French executed the father of modern Chemistry Antoine Lavoisier for tax fraud. The judge said “The republic needs neither scientists nor chemists.”
loyr5 TIL that when Leonid Brezhnev was the head of government of the Soviet Union, he awarded himself the Hero of the Soviet Union for his birthday in 1966, 1976, 1978 and 1981