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TIL that the ancient akkadians believed that the clouds were the breast of the goddess antum and rain was her breast milk.

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GY0v7 TIL that the main protagonist from the music video ( Take On Me by A-ha ), don't live happily ever after. In the follow up song (The Sun Always Shines On Tv By A-ha.) The male protagonist starts to dematerialize in the real world and runs off into the distances and then vanishes.
VBroD TIL the planet Scarif in "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" got its name when director Gareth Edwards ordered a drink at a Starbucks and a barista misspelled his name "Gareth" as "Scarif".
OdGR TIL that there is a secretive genre of electronic music called Black Midi which uses almost every single note at once
wopvW TIL of Vichy collaborator Maurice Papon, who deported 1600 Jews to Drancy camp in WW2. He also tortured Algerian insurgents and killed up to 300 protesters in Paris in 1961, disappeared a Moroccan Marxist, and was granted the Legion of Honour by Charles de Gaulle. He was not convicted until 1998.
m1RnR TIL from 1961 to 1965, Mossad operative Eli Cohen spied in Syria as Kamal Amin Thaabet, managed to integrate the highest ranks of military and government and was considered to become deputy minister for defense until caught by counterintelligence