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TIL that you can see China’s air pollution on satellite images.

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4XlyJ TIL that black essayist James Baldwin had an 1,884-page FBI file, one of the longest in Bureau history. Truman Capote, one of the most-suspected writers of the era, only had a 110-page file
loWrK TIL that Disney refused a grieving father’s request to put a Spider-Man sticker on the tombstone of his son that died from a rare genetic disorder
QNJ0p TIL Voltaire met a married mother of 3, Émilie du Châtelet, 12 years his junior with whom he had an affair with for 16 years. Later, on a visit to Paris, Voltaire took a new lover - his niece, Marie Louise Mignot.
Rlkj TIL the largest empire the world has ever seen was the British Empire, having conquered 22.63% of the world’s land.
d0p8 TIL of Vexations, a piano piece meant to be played 840 times in a row, that takes roughly 18 hours to play and one man who attempted to solo it quit after 15 hours because he was hallucinating.