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TIL Only 4% of Irish people have red hair

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OGVVY TIL A jew’s harp is a single reed instrument of an Asian origin and has nothing to do with the Jewish culture. The reed produces a fundamental note, other notes produced by a player by altering the shape of mouth using tongue.
VMbkB TIL The design of the Emperor’s home in “Mulan” takes its inspiration from China’s Forbidden City. The timeline of the movie is set during China’s Han Dynasty, from around 200 B.C.to 200 A.D.; while the Forbidden City was built about 1,200 years later
jOop TIL there’s a water reservoir in space that is 100,000 times more massive than our sun containing 140 trillion times more water than the oceans
WpB TIL the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs cast shadows behind objects because of the massive heat/light it cast out (WARNING: graphic pictures)
G7jJ TIL that after the great Chicago fire, England donated a library’s worth of books to replace the ones that burned. What England didn’t know, however, is that Chicago did not have a library before the fire.