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TIL that Magnolia were named after French Botanist Pierre Magnol

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PYDGZ TIL Haruki Murakami wrote his first novel "Hear the Wind Sing" entirely by hand and then on a whim sent the only copy of the manuscript to be considered for a literary magazines new-writers prize. He went on to win the prize.
rNYQM Today I learned that Donald Duck was legally drafted into and discharged from the US Army during WWII
xJpk TIL There is a beach in the Maldives that has a glowing blue tide at night.
16KvO TIL That webcam was invented in 1991 by researchers to check if the coffee pot in another room was empty or not.. The webcam was called Trojan Room coffee pot.
nR8d TIL that if you send a letter to Israel addressed to god, they will place it in the Western Wall, where visitors traditionally place handwritten notes of prayer and wishes in the cracks between its stones.