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TIL that the San Marino military maintains a crossbow corps

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P8pO TIL Karl Marx believed capitalism had the best chance of saving the world (but worried it was vulnerable to being overtaken by corporate fascism) which is why he wrote about it so much.
kjZ7 TIL that the first streaming music service started in 1897. Users in New York could pick up their phones & connect to the Telharmonium, a central hub that would pipe music being played live by two musicians playing 24 hours a day.
0Jx5 TIL Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet President, starred in a Pizza Hut commercial.
JYk7k TIL bears at Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center in MT have jobs: try to open coolers/dumpsters/containers of treats. If bears can't make more than a tiny hole, the item is certified bear-proof. The GWDC is the only place where products can earn a certificate from the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee.
DQo4e TIL that Cosmo Jarvis, lead actor of the Shogun mini series, had a music career.