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TIL of An open air school in 1957, Netherlands. ⁣In the beginning of the 20th century a movement towards open air schools took place in Europe. Classes were taught in forests so that students would benefit physically and mentally from clean air and sunlight.

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nWV9W TIL of 'Soul of the Earth' by Rafael Trénor--an earth sized sculpture forming the concept of a cube within the earth with the 8 corners poking out on/near land, will be the largest sculpture on earth when the final vertex is finished in Spain.
R7DMa TIL that in 2014 Pope Francis declared evolution and the Big Bang Theory to be right and said that the Big Bang "does not contradict the divine act of creating, but rather requires it".
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