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TIL former Beatles member George Harrison released a song titled "Here Comes the Moon" as an unofficial sequel to the famous "Here Comes The Sun". He was on a trip in Hawaii watching a beautiful sunset when he turned around and was left in awe of the mesmerizing moon appearing in the night sky.

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y0RJ TIL The Fibonacci sequence can be used to model an amazing variety of phenomena in mathematics, science, art and nature. It can be found in computer algorithms and seen in the branching of trees, or the spirals of a conch shell or a galaxy, but no one can really explain why.
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