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TIL that Joko Widodo, the current President of Indonesia, likes hard rock music a lot - he once had a bass guitar that was signed by Robert Trujillo, was given a signed copy of "Master of Puppets" by a former Danish President, and went to a rock festival in 2013 while he was Governor of Jakarta.

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jQVp TIL in India there is a statue of Jesus where water was mysteriously dripping from its toes. Worshipers would collect and sometimes drink the ‘holy water’. A man traced the source of the water to a clogged toilet behind the wall condensing on the statue. He had to flee the country as a result.
R5vww TIL my partners dad just had a bone marrow transfer, he now has two sets of DNA and his blood type has changed! On a side note, if you donated bone marrow in the last two weeks, thank you very much!❤️‍🩹
5wWQ TIL that fashion and style aficionados look for collar gaps on your clothes to tell if you get your clothes tailored or not.
Ryvw TIL that during World War II in Australia, there was a dog whose hearing was so acute that it could warn airforce personnel of incoming Japanese planes 20 minutes before they arrived, and before they showed up on radar. “Gunner” could also differentiate the sounds of allied and enemy aircraft.
kR5E TIL: of the foldscope. A microscope that provides magnification from 140X to 2,000X. It is assembled from a punched sheet of cardstock, a spherical glass lens, a light emitting diode and a diffuser panel, along with a watch battery. It is designed to cost less than US$1 to build.