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TIL Vincent van Gogh’s masterpiece Starry Night depicts the view outside his sanitarium window, and that he was not impressed with the now beloved work

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LNOd TIL in 1958 Ford designed the Nucleon, a car powered by a uranium fission steam engine. It was the inspiration for the “Atomic V8” engines in the Fallout games.
a8vmZ TIL that during WWII, scientists were struggling to make enough penicillin to keep up with demand until they found a moldy cantaloupe in Peoria, IL that was producing penicillin at the highest rate they had yet seen.
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168dr TIL "Willie McBride," the fallen soldier eulogized in the folk song "No Man's Land (Green Fields of France)," is both fictional and real. The writer invented his name, but several young men named "William McBride" did die in World War I and match some or all of the song's description.