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TIL hiding backwards messages in music is banned in California.

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WkEWX TIL that queen Elizabeth was a mechanic in ww2.
D1J9Y TIL about the Pistol Shrimp, a crustacean that kills its preys with bullets made out of bubbles. The clicking of its claws are so loud that the US Navy used its colonies as an “acoustic screen” to hide from the underwater hydrophones in Japan's harbours during WWII.
WkvNd TIL That Russians Race Motorcycles on Ice
ZBxo TIL about Derek Black, son of former KKK Grand Wizard Don Black and Godson of David Duke. Derek; the host of a white nationalist radio show and heir-apparent leader of the “white nationalists” publicly renounced his beliefs and broke all ties with the group in 2012 - at the age of 23.
86kP TIL The Pennsylvania Dutch aren’t actually Dutch, they are German. Upon arrival, they were saying “Deutsch” which is German for, well, German. Germany in the their native language is “Deutschland.” English speaking Americans just assumed they were saying “Dutch.”