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TIL that early phonographs didn't have volume control. People stuffed socks and towels into them to quiet them--which is where we get the phrase "put a sock in it"

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jNwbX TIL that a 1700 year old baobab tree in Modjadjiskloof, South Africa had a 15-person full bar inside its 155 foot wide trunk called the Big Baobab Tree Bar. The bar closed and the tree eventually fell over in 2017.
YWJv TIL that as a child, the French designer Christian Louboutin, being darker-skinned than the rest of his family, invented his own history of being Egyptian, due to his fascination with Pharaohs. At the age of 50, Louboutin discovered that his biological father was in fact an Egyptian man.
E1b8p TIL: The Mexican Constitution is the first such document in the world to set out social rights, serving as a model for the Weimar Constitution of 1919 and the Soviet Constitution of 1918.
Wk7d TIL If you shuffle a deck properly, it is extremely likely that the resulting deck has never been seen before in the history of cards.
Wkkd TIL: Continuum, a magazine created to deny the existence of AIDS, shut down when all of it’s editors died of AIDS.