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yQdAM Til that 150k+ First Nation kids were removed from their homes, over a span of 100 years, in order to "get rid of the Indian problem in Canada"
QJaZe TIL as steel wires in tires become magnetized with use, rotating tires create a magnetic field.
vP0N7 TIL: Martin Scorsese's special effect team created a "traveling booger matte" to remove a large blob of cocaine from Neil Young's nose during his appearance in the 1978 film "The Last Waltz".
b9MN7 TIL that the katzenklavier ("cat piano") is a hypothetical musical instrument made out of cats. Designed by 17th-century scholar, Athanasius Kircher, it consists of a row of caged cats with different voice pitches. It is to be "played" by driving a nail into the cat's tail to make it yowl
V4Pp TIL a woman used drain cleaner to BLIND herself, and she says that she is happier than ever after fulfilling lifelong wish of becoming blind