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TIL according to a Chinese legend, music was invented in 2697 B.C., when the Emperor Huang Ti send Ling Lun to cut bamboo poles that would produce a sound matching the call of a phoenix bird.

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e0KyE TIL “animal dignity” is guaranteed in Sweden’s constitution; they are the only country on earth to have such a provision.
78867 TIL Dr Seuss's original Lorax drawings are found in Austin, at the presidential library of Lyndon B Johnson. Johnson and his wife were environmentalists and he called Seuss personally to thank him for donating the original artwork to the Johnson archive
ANg0g TIL that when you donate your body to science, it can get used as a crash test dummy, for medical training, forensic research or to save a life through organ transplants.
9YAn7 TIL that despite being founded in the same city, in the same year and having the same name, Hershey's ice cream and Hershey's chocolate have no affiliation and in fact have had multiple legal disputes due to their shared name.
vPEej TIL that the commonly quoted figure of 150 deaths from falling coconuts worldwide annually is a myth based on extrapolation from 2 anecdotal reports from Alotau, Papua New Guinea over more than 4 years. Only 22 reported cases of death by falling coconut have happened since 1777.