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TIL that Benjamin Franklin curiously stated, in context of the discussion to create the system of Impeachment in the United States, that, historically speaking, assassination was a justifiable way of removing “obnoxious” leaders.

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pYGKb TIL one of the first use of avant-garde technique of tape manipulation in music was the 1955 hit "Jingle Bells" by The Singing Dogs. Using a razor, Carl Weismann cut, then spliced sounds of dog barks together, correcting speed, pitch and melody of the resulting tape. It reached #22 on Billboard.
XEDy6 TIL of the Shepard Tone, a musical technique that creates the auditory illusion of a tone that continually ascends or descends in pitch, yet which ultimately seems to get no higher or lower.
7rQAr TIL Montreal recently started taxing churches
8aDeV TIL that more than 380,000 African American soldiers served in the Army during WWI. THE U.S. Army wasn’t comfortable with the idea of training black men for combat, so they were assigned to train under/fight along side the French
awjl9 TIL Prisoners in Brazil can shorten their sentence by reading and writing a report on a book