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TIL that there is a violin made out of stone that is fully playable

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e0Ga6 TIL Grant & Lee met again in 1869, 4 years after the American Civil War at the White House when Grant was President of the U.S. and Lee president of Washington University. Grant cracked a joke at Lee about railroads but Lee refused to smile. Their meeting was brief, lasting 15 minutes.
DKBr TIL that the FBI maintains their own Bitcoin wallet that consists of seized Bitcoins.
J8aQ TIL In 1851 when the refrigerated ice machine was patented, the large ice-importing industry ran a smear campaign against the technology, calling it immoral.
vPNaR TIL that, when coffee arrived from Arabia to Europe, it boosted the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment. In the early days, the Royal Society of London used to meet in a coffee shop, not in a pub.
nee6o TIL Looting during and after Hurricane Katrina was grossly over exaggerated by the media.