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TIL from the 1850s to 1914, the city of Dachau, Germany had an artist colony, attracting artists from across Europe, such as landscape painters and printmakers

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9YbyB TIL that Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water sounds eerily similar to Astrud Gilberto's Quiet Maria recorded in 1966
QJBOd TIL that The Apostrophe Protection Society that was founded to enforce the proper use of the apostrophe in written English was brought to a "full stop" in 2019. The founder of the society stated that "the ignorance and laziness present in modern times have won!"
GYbj7 TIL a robot named hitchBOT successfully hitchhiked across Canada but when he tried to repeat this feat in the US he was beaten to death and dismembered in Philadelphia
KEvQ TIL that it is by pure coincidence that we exist on a planet and in a time when our star is covered exactly during a total eclipse. No other known planet has total eclipses and at some point in the future they won’t occur on Earth either.
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