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TIL There are giant clouds of alcohol in space.

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Z8EwQ TIL of the "End-of-History Illusion". The perception that you have reached a maximum of personal growth, your potential, and that no new personal maturing will happen in the future.
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ep075 TIL French composer Olivier Messiaen wrote his avant garde masterpiece "Quartet For The End Of Time", inspired by Book Of Revelation and birdsong, on a prisoner-of-war camp in Görlitz, Germany on the available instruments. It was also premiered there in 1941.
4XWBN TIL of Nikolay Pirogov, a Russian doctor in the Crimean War. While Florence Nightingale revolutionized nursing in the British army, Pirogov founded the discipline of field surgery in the Russian camp. One of the first to use Ether as an anaesthetic, he also invented many other medical operations.
J1ajV TIL German chocolate cake was born in America and named after a guy, not the country.