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TIL Academy Award winning composer John Williams (Star Wars, E.T., Indiana Jones) is the father of Toto (“Africa”) frontman Joseph Williams.

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DWBp TIL The unofficial word ‘sonder’ explains the thought process you have when you realise that every random stranger, passerby, person is living a life as vivid and complex as your own it is.
VME8 TIL the English phrase “Gung-ho” is of Chinese origin (Kung ho). It entered the American lexicon in 1942 via an American general. The original meaning is “to work together.”
WnBA TIL Arab and Persian lands produced several outspoken rationalists and atheists during Islamic Golden Age. Al-Ma'arri wrote and taught that religion itself was a “fable invented by the ancients” .
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loyWK TIL Dante, author of 'Dante's Divine Comedy', is the primary reason why the Tuscan dialect of Italian became the "standardized" Italian language. In 1945, the fascist Italian government called Dante "the greatest symbol of Italianness".