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TIL In the middle ages they tortured lousy musicians
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TIL about a swimming pool which was built in middle of Mojave desert, as an art installation, the location to which was not released to public. Users had to get the keys to the pool from MAK center in West Hollywood, who would provide the GPS coordinates to the pool.
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TIL Birds don't urinate. Instead, they convert nitrogen to uric acid.
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TIL of Tetris Syndrome, which is when you play a game too long and you start to dream about it, and hallucinate about it on the edges of your vision.
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TIL that when dust jackets were first introduced, they completely enclosed the books and were sealed shut with wax or glue like wrapping paper. The most of these jackets were torn open and thrown away.
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TIL that Domino’s Pizza used to have a mascot called The Noid. In 1989, a man named Kenneth Noid held two Domino’s employees hostage, believing the mascot was designed to mock him. The employees escaped while he ate pizza. Noid was later diagnosed with schizophrenia and acquitted due to insanity.