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TIL Sponges are classified as "animals"
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TIL Glass fiber dresses were a fad for a few years in the 1890s, and the NYT even predicted they’d be more popular
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Today I learned that looking at the rocks lower left of the famous portrait depicting Napoléon's crossing of the Alps by Jacques-Louis David, it is seen that the names of Hannibal and Charlemagne, who had previously crossed the Alps, were engraved.
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TIL that, when the US was founded, the government could, and often did, unilaterally shut down corporations if they exceeded their authority or caused public harm.
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TIL that one of the Seven Great Houses in Ancient Iran was the House of Karen who once tried to claim independence and refused to pay their tribute, but were ultimately defeated for this.
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TIL our brain perceives people who annoy us as moving slower than they actually are