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TIL classical music concerts had loud, moving, wild audiences during the performance.

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R5rol TIL that the exact meaning of the letter “p” in the pH scale is unknown because the inventor never bothered to explain what it stood for.
b6LK7 TIL in 2010, after 90 years of publication, Canadian magazine "The Beaver" changed its name to "Canada's History" because the modern slang definition for "beaver" resulted in their promotional emails being sent to the spam folder.
PY50w TIL Wolfgang Engels, an East German soldier who had helped build the barbed-wire fences that initially separated the two Berlins, stole a tank and drove it through the wall itself. Despite getting caught in the barbed wire and shot twice, he managed to escape.
yQw7V TIL (PAINFULLY) that a common black and yellow wasp can sting straight through multiple layers of decent quality toilet tissue. Don't make the mistake of pitying them once they are caught like I did...
W777X TIL that much of the justification for the beginning of the Anglo-Zulu war was two surveyors being detained for about an hour and having their smoking pipes and handkerchiefs stolen.