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Today I learned that Russia hid cities to the world during the Soviet era

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91jQ TIL that when Theodore Roosevelt’s parents were unsatisfied with his and the other children’s command of German, they shipped them off to live in Dresden for 5 months with a German family
PYDeG TIL that the flash from cameras does not harm artwork. In a 1995 study, the London National Gallery concluded that camera flash is dangerous after measuring the color change in test pigments that were exposed to over 1,000,000 flashes. However, the control group showed the same amount of change.
nW9eb TIL the words senator and senile both has its roots in the latin word “senex” meaning old man
bQyp TIL of Insular Dwarfism, the tendency for small species to become larger and large species to become smaller upon being moved to an island.
NX0pb TIL that the largest spider in the world, the Goliath Bird Eater, is edible and has been described as “shrimp-like”