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TIL that a Fiddle is the same as a Violin

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dLX9 TIL Pumpernickle is German for “Devil’s Fart.” This name actually predates the bread.
p8Z6N TIL Aztecs saw giving birth as a battle, and women who died during childbirth were believed to go to the same heaven as fallen warriors.
V8JG TIL that after the civil war ended, the first General of the Confederate Army was active in the Reform Party, which spoke in favor of civil rights and voting for the recently freed slaves.
l7vR1 TIL The Canterbury Earthquake distorted train tracks in 2010
mggE TIL the famous Inca site of Machu Picchu was constructed less than 50 years before Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World