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TIL Taiwanese author Chen Yingzhen was a supporter of the notion of a unifying Chinese national identity in Taiwan. Chen was "considered by many Chinese readers and critics in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas to be Taiwan's greatest author"

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4kD65 TIL the first person known to have been killed by an automobile was a naturalist, astronomer, microscopist, author, and artist. She was killed when she fell under the wheels of an experimental steam car built by her cousins.
J5AB TIL of Otto Wels, a Social Democratic politician of Weimar Germany who was an outspoken opponent of Hitler. He was the sole person to speak against the Enabling Act after the Reichstag Fire. He died in exile in France in the early days of World War II.
E1bP TILAfter the fall of Rome, a new illiterate Europe arose. The Irish saved civilization by copying lost books. These astonishingly decorated Irish manuscripts of the early medieval period are today the great jewels of libraries in England, France, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Italy, and even Russia.
a8Bj9 TIL the typical UFO/UAP being reported by the US military according to the Pentagon UFO Office is a White, Silver or Translucent Orb around 1-4 meters in size typically traveling between stationary or Mach 2 speeds with no thermal exhaust detected at 10k - 30k in altitude since 1996.
5YK8p TIL about "Star Jelly", a strange jelly or slime that sometime appears on earth in the morning before disappearing or dissolving. Science has not explanation of this phenomenon. (Fixed link)