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TIL when Uranus was discovered it was called George for about 70 years

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v1vor TIL The city of Bruges enjoyed almost 400 years of prosperity due to a single storm in 1134 that opened up a natural channel that allowed sea trade. It lost its prestige when the channel got blocked again in the 1500s.
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xVN1g TIL David Bowie had little memory of recording his 10th studio album Station to Station as he had a cocaine habit and subsisted on only peppers and milk, spending much of 1975-1976 “in a state of psychic terror”
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