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TIL That Peter Piper Was A French Pirate Who Stole Nutmeg From Denmark (5th paragraph down).

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neXgd TIL The music commonly associated with clowns in circuses was written by Julius Fucik. It was originally titled Entrance of the Gladiators and was meant to represent slaves marching into an arena to fight to the death.
awMJy TIL that Nero didn't play a fiddle while Rome burned in 64 A.D., bowed string instruments wouldn't appear in Europe for another 800 years. However several sources place Nero on the roof of his palace during the fire, dressed in stage garb and singing from the Greek epic “The Sack of Ilium.”
KyXJ TIL General Tso’s Chicken is an American dish. It was unknown of in China before it was introduced by chefs returning from the United States.
ANYLw TIL A chicken in Indonesia has such a distinctive crow it is used as a foghorn on boats.
ejE TIL: diamonds aren’t forever. Diamonds are coated with boric acid during jewelry rework to seal out oxygen and keep them from burning