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TIL in a double-blind test, professional violinists preferred the sound of a modern violin over multi-million-dollar Stradivarius violins

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4kAXX TIL Rwanda's Akagera national park is the largest protected wetland in Africa and safari destination with elephants, lions. But in 1997 it was reduced in size by close to 50% as the land was allocated to populations returning after the 1994 genocide
4rb5 TIL: Medal of Honor recipients receive a special pension of $1,259 per month.
E1ZYw TIL that 6 people who lived in an apartment over a period of 9 years died from leukemia. An investigation revealed a capsule containing caesium-137 embedded in the wall, believed to have gotten mixed up with construction supplies
VmOD TIL in 2007, a 75 year old woman from Virginia named Mona Shaw, smashed up a comcast office with a hammer from being fed up with their poor customer service.
J1JAB TIL most coconuts in Thailand are harvested by trained monkeys