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TIL: dementia often involves hallucinations
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TIL that the license plate number of Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s car, in which he was assassinated, was A III118. The official end of WWI was Armistice Day, 11/11/18
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TIL the French Army had an anti-tank Vespa (a Vespa mounted with a bazooka) starting in 1947.
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TIL about the surviving 2nd century Roman novel A True Story written by Lucian of Samosata. It is regarded as one of the first ever works of science fiction ever written and it features explorers flying to the moon, first contact with aliens, an interstellar war and the discovery of a new continent.
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TIL gas clouds in the universe are detected by not only their emission but also their absorption of starlight. The absorbed wavelengths depend on the elements and compounds in the cloud, as explained by quantum mechanics, allowing us to determine their composition through absorption lines.
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TIL that specially destructive hurricanes have their names retired from the hurricane name list