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TIL that the Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ in Atlantic City is the largest and loudest musical instrument ever built - with over 33,000 pipes, 7 keyboards, and a stop so powerful (the Grand Ophicleide) it was described as “more than six times louder than the loudest locomotive whistle.”

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QQK6 TIL a man in Alabama has spent three decades building a stone wall by hand to honor his great-great-grandmother, a Yuchi Indian woman who was forced along the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma following the slaughter of her family by whites and then spent 5 years walking more than 1,000 miles back home.
OxmL TIL scientists have reconstructed YouTube videos from the brain activity of the people watching them. One day a technique like this might allow us to record our dreams
XE6A6 TIL after falling into deep depression and addiction, James Taylor was rescued by his father who flew to New York and drove all night back to North Carolina with his son and his possessions. A year later, Taylor became the first non-British act signed to Apple Records, founded by The Beatles
4X7bb TIL author Clive Barker supported himself early in his career by occasionally working as a male prostitute for rich and secretive clients. The experience inspired him to write, "The Hellbound Heart", which was later adapted into the film, "Hellraiser"
V6EZ TIL that a billionaire heir to the SC Johnson fortune received only 4 months in prison for repeatedly sexually assaulting his 12 year old stepdaughter