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Today I learned violin strings are made from sheep intestines then wrapped in metal

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JYpWQ TIL The first Aeronautical Engineer for Boeing was an MIT educated Chinese naval officer hired in 1916
XEMOD TIL: there are an estimated 200 bodies on MT Everest that hikers use as markers on their journey up the beast of a mountain, including a corpse named “green boots”.
7ryLb TIL the International Democrat Union, an international alliance of centre-right and conservative political parties, of which the German CDU is a memeber, is chaired by Stephen Harper, former Prime Minister of Canada.
WBA9 TIL during the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, 25,000 pigeons were released during the opening ceremony. When a cannon was fired, the pigeons begun to poop on the spectators watching the ceremony below.
eaen TIL: More than 3,000 people have leapt to their death from San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, but out of the 26 people who survived the jump, all 26 reported that the moment they leapt from the bridge, they regretted their action and wanted to live.