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TIL There are twice as many trees in the UK today as there were a hundred years ago.

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kJQm TIL parrots are able to dance perfectly in time with music, and this may be connected to their ability to mimic and speak
awOyM TIL that the smallest instrument in the world is a Nano Guitar- a miniature guitar the size of a red blood cell. One model could only be played by its stings being targeted with miniature lasers in an atomic force microscope.
b9MN7 TIL that the katzenklavier ("cat piano") is a hypothetical musical instrument made out of cats. Designed by 17th-century scholar, Athanasius Kircher, it consists of a row of caged cats with different voice pitches. It is to be "played" by driving a nail into the cat's tail to make it yowl
J8rk TIL that the disc for Playstation game Tiger Woods PGA Tour ‘99 contained a copy of the short film “The Spirit of Christmas” that spawned the South Park series, but was unauthorized to do so and was recalled as a result.
WWk4 TIL under a 2011 program in Alabama, first-time nonviolent offenders could avoid jail by going to church