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TIL: The baritone sarrusophone is sometimes nicknamed the "combat bassoon."

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WkMd8 TIL of "Big's Backyard Ultra" a last man standing marathon, where competitors run around a 4.1667 mile loop until only one remains. Last year's winner ran a record-setting 68 laps (283.3356 miles) in 55 hours, 23 minutes. Everyone but the winner is designated DNF.
yOme TIL during Prohibition, the U.S. government poisoned alcohol, killing as many as 10,000 people
ZMo TIL Joseph Stalin’s real name is Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. He adopted “Stalin” by combining ‘stal’, which is Russian for “steel” with “Lenin”.
m49v TIL a well-known hacker fired from Valve claims the company’s flat management structure actually has “a hidden layer of powerful management… with a weird paranoia that their culture would be contaminated”
R7Zr7 TIL: The River Thames is one of the cleanest Rivers in the world that flows through a major city, after being declared biologically dead 50 years ago