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TIL the term pub is short for public house

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QJZeX TIL iconic 19th century French painter Henri Rousseau, known for his vivid depictions of jungles and exotic animals, never left France during his lifetime.
XWO8 TIL that According to ancient Greek literature, when Odysseus arrived home after an absence of 20 years, disguised as a beggar, the only one to recognize him was his aged dog Argos, who wagged his tail at his master, and then died.
KOE4a TIL that Nicolaus Copernicus proposed the heliocentric solar system (making the sun the center of the solar system instead of earth) from his death bed because he was aware of the controversy it would cause and the danger it proposed to him. He was right.
DQ5xj TIL that there is a species of bison native to Europe. The European Bison is the largest land animal in Europe, is a national animal of Poland, and whose populations were driven to extinction in most of Europe and Asia in late antiquity.
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