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TIL the older a world leader is the more likely they are to lead their nation into war.

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X0joQ TIL Florence Foster Jenkins (1868–1944) believed she was a great opera singer despite being completely tone-deaf. She performed in extravagant costumes, including tinsel wings, and dismissed laughter as jealousy. Her famous quote: “People may say I can't sing, but no one can ever say I didn't sing.”
oO5o TIL that the Bering Strait between Russia and Alaska is never more than 55 meters deep.
4X6Jb TIL that the iconic 'Bass' line from "Seven Nation Army" isn't played on a bass guitar, but instead on a semi-acoustic guitar electronically lowered an octive.
16Q8D TIL about the Pascaline, a mechanical calculator invented by Blaise Pascal in 1642 to help his father, who was supervisor of taxes in Rouen. The Pascaline added and subtracted two numbers, and multipled and divided through series of additions or substractions
DQA9p TIL that your cat's "zoomies" are actually called "frenetic random activity periods" or FRAP for short.