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TIL that in China they constructed a building with embedded wind turbines to provide its own power

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LQDbd TIL Guqin, the ancient Chinese zither, has its own musical notation and 150 handbooks containing over 3,000 pieces of music spanning at least 1,500 years. However today fewer than two thousand people can play it, and it is rarely seen in China
gMw94 TIL The huddle formation in American football was first used in the 1890s by quarterback Paul Hubbard,who was deaf. Hubbard was concerned the other team could interpret his hand signals, so he brought his teammates into a round formation to call plays.
W77Oo TIL The Great Pyramid of Giza Has Eight Sides and Not Four
loD0V TIL All modern penicillin can be traced back to a single moldy cantaloupe from a small grocery store in Peoria, Illinois
9697 TIL The royalties from Bob Marley’s “No Woman No Cry” go to a soup kitchen in the ghetto he grew up in.