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TIL JBL is the acronym of its founder, James Bullough Lansing who took his own life in 1949. He inducted into the Hi-Fi Hall of Fame in 2023.

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OGPX1 TIL the East River that separates Manhattan from long island is not actually a river but rather a drowned valley.
GXR7 TIL that when the Nazis invaded the Netherlands, Niels Bohr had his colleagues’ Nobel medals dissolved in acid. They were stored on a shelf until after the war, when the gold was precipitated and the medals re-struck by the Nobel Foundation.
D1nRY TIL that there is a monument in Georgia which gives instructions in 8 languages on how to rebuild society after an unknown apocalyptic event, whilst also functioning as a compass, calendar and clock
jNyaj TIL of the amazing and fearless POW dog Judy, who uplifted and protected British prisoners captured by the Japanese during WW2. She skirted death multiple times and survived the war. Her “master” built her a granite memorial inscribed with her life story when she died of old age
LQy7V TIL that there is a city in Minnesota named Montevideo, as in the capital of Uruguay, and both namesakes are sister cities, dating back to 1905.