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TIL in the Middle Ages, Christians believed that Muslims worshipped a god named Termagant

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d8kDr TIL that there is an unusual instrument called the celeste/celesta which looks like a piano, but has metal plates like a xylophone, instead of strings, inside. This instrument is what gives the Nutcracker's Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies, and the Harry Potter theme, their distinct sound.
BgNax TIL most people during the Victorian Era only had access to a full bath once a month. Newspaper and corncobs were used as toilet paper, and ammonia was used as a shampoo.
4krMw TIL a town in India is addicted to chess after one man taught everyone how to play 50 years ago to eliminate excessive alcohol consumption and gambling, which has now all decreased to nearly nothing.
9YJWQ TIL of Australia's pyjama girl mystery: an unidentified murdered woman's body was on public exhibition in a vat of formalin many years for identification. Ten years later the husband confessed to killing her - he was once a waiter at the detective's regular restaurant who he had known many years
e0ZL6 TIL a Russian lab housing biological weapons and pathogens accidentally released a deadly anthrax strain in 1979, killing an unknown number of people. The lab is still active.