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TIL of the mbira, a musical instrument of the Zimbabwean Shona people that's like a mini handheld piano/xylophone

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GJRQ TIL that the total size of the Google Earth database is over 20 Petabytes.
XQ4E TIL in 1834 a 22-year old milkmaid from the swedish countryside was arrested in Stockholm for distrupting traffic by gathering large crowds with her beauty. Once released her beauty was so famous that it became a necessity for trendy aristocrats to pay her to display herself in their salons.
ANVAn TIL about Sadako Sasaki (1943–1955). She was two years old when Hiroshima was bombed and was severely irradiated. She survived for another ten years before dying from leukemia caused by radiation exposure. She is remembered for folding over a thousand origami cranes before her death.
7moL TIL that when the University of Sheffield polled 250 children, all 250 reported that they disliked clowns as hospital decor
lowAN TIL flies find it hard to land on striped surfaces, & zebras suffer far less from flies, which carry deadly diseases. Zebra stripes are more pronounced in environments that favour horseflies