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TIL 'Saturn devouring his son' and the 13 other Black Paintings were never ment for public display. In 1819 Francisco Goya went into near isolation and painted the works directly onto the walls of his house. The haunting pictures reflect Goya's internal demons and civil strife occuring in Spain

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grwZ8 Til during The Carrington Event, the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history, on 1–2 September 1859, some telegraph operators were able to send and receive messages despite having disconnected their power supplies.
MeGOa TIL there is a cave in Romania that has been isolated for 5.5 million years and contains more than 30 species that exist nowhere else in the world, that had been leaving with an air different than ours.
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