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TIL in Jewish tradition, the Tzadikim Nistarim refers to 36 people whose role in life is to justify the purpose of humanity in the eyes of God

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kOyKm TIL in 1944, George Orwell's first draft of Animal Farm was almost destroyed in a German V-1 rocket attack. He luckily found the manuscript in the rubble of his house.
LDGQ TIL William Herschel discovered Uranus and two of its major moons, Titania and Oberon and discovered two moons of Saturn which were Mimas and Enceladus. He was also the first person who discovered infrared radiation. In addition, he composed twenty-four symphonies, and many other musical pieces.
nW81Y TIL that the world's oldest known living organism is a colony of quaking aspen trees in Utah named Pando. Estimated to be around 80,000 years old, Pando covers an area of 106 acres and consists of over 40,000 individual trees, all connected by a single root system.
N9mQ TIL an Albatross (bird) can sleep while flying to avoid predators such as whales and sharks.
R7P04 TIL that Michelson-Morley experiments (to prove a theory competing with special relativity) are still being conducted, with the first one dating back to 1881