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TIL about The Changing Light at Sandover, an epic-length poem written over twenty years by a gay poet and his lover, based on dictation from spirits speaking through a ouija board

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J1r1j TIL dry cleaning is not dry at all. It still involves washing the clothes, but with a special liquid solvent instead of water
E1LLo TIL of the exercise of 'death cleaning' - a Swedish concept where elderly people deliberately clear out and declutter their possessions so that nobody else has to do it once they're dead
oR7lW TIL about the Black Coffey Caverns. A series of caves in Pennsylvania that can only be accessed through a basement.
x6kaB TIL that Tom Petty announced a short break halfway through his album "Full Moon Fever" to give vinyl and cassette listeners the chance to turn over the record, or tape. This was heard only on the CD version, though.
XEdrR TIL the blue planet used to be purple. 250 million years ago, the oceans lost all their oxygen and one of the only things to survive was a purple alga/bacteria which would have given the seas an irridescent violet hue. Geologists have found remnants of this purple bacteria embedded in ancient rock.