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TIL Sesame Street briefly featured a muppet named Don Music, a composer who frequently banged his head against his piano. After numerous complaints from parents that children were copying his behaviour, the character was retired

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dw7j TIL that during the Civil War, JP Morgan founder bought five thousand rifles for $3.50 each from an army arsenal, and sold them to a general in the field for $22 each
Y6QA TIL that Mongols were actually outnumbered in most of their victories in battles. But they still managed to deceive their enemies by elaborate ruses - like mounting dummies atop horses, and tying sticks to the horses’ tails to create dust storms.
R5MLj TIL about Pupfish, the most rare endangered fish species. They live exclusively in "Devil's Hole", a single tiny pool of water of unknown depth, roughly 90 miles NW of Las Vegas.
AD0wn TIL bottles often had round bottoms prior to the invention of the metal bottle cap to prevent upright storage
vKp8 TIL British doctor Harold Shipman (AKA ‘Doctor Death’) was proven to have murdered at least 250 of his patients, but may have killed as many as 459 people, making him the most prolific serial killer in recorded human history.