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TIL that most work to restore paintings is designed to be removable, so that future conservation efforts can undo any changes

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1aA4r TIL that Stephen Colbert's father and two of his brothers were killed in the plane crash that sparked the FAA's Sterile Cockpit regulation back in 1974.
awZ9A TIL That Don Mclean's American Pie held the record for almost 50 years for being the longest song to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 before Taylor Swift's "All Too Well (Taylor's Version)" broke the record in 2021.
e0ed6 TIL Dreams are caused by the random firing of neurons in the cerebral cortex during the REM period. The forebrain then creates a story in an attempt to reconcile and make sense of the nonsensical sensory information presented to it.
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