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TIL about Jules Chéret father of the modern poster printing leading the birth of the industrialised harvesting of attention.

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j6ALQ TIL, of the BP (Before Present) timescale, used by archeologists; 0BP is 1950 in the Gregorian calendar
NlR1 TIL in the book Fahrenheit 451, it is not the government that censored books, but the society, and the real message is about the dangers of an illiterate society infatuated with mass media
5yW9 TIL that 1st generation immigrants’ children are less likely to commit crime than natives and 2nd generation children
a8JQA TIL that in the hours just before and after Arthur C. Clarke's death, five supernovae were observed, a record, with one of them being the farthest object ever seen with the naked eye