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TIL a Muslim woman has dedicated her life to watching over the Jewish museum in Morocco

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yM6p TIL There’s a shade of blue that doesn’t reproduce on a black and white copy machine or grayscale scan. It’s used extensively in the graphic design industry.
wLP87 TIL That the creator of Frasier was killed on September 11th when his plane crashed into the North Tower.
v4BD TIL The Islamic world was a dominant player in the history of slavery. Muslims continued to trade in European slaves by raiding European coasts up to the 19th century.
9wkkG TIL that nowhere in any dialog written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle does Sherlock Holmes ever utter the phrase “Elementary, my dear Watson”
lAKa TIL that in 1925, a recently independent Ireland spent the one fifth of it’s annual budget on a Hydro-Electric Plant in efforts to modernize the country. At it’s peak it provided 96% of Ireland’s electricity - today it provides 2%.