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TIL that when Samsung washing machines and dryers finish a spin cycle, they play an arrangement of the first portion of the fourth movement of "the Trout" by Schubert.

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j6VZQ TIL that before the Gregorian calendar went into effect in 1582, leap years were created differently. Instead of adding an extra, separate day to the end of the month (February 29th), they doubled February 24th during leap years, resulting in two consecutive days with the same date.
J1aMj TIL of the battle of changping which cost 1 million lives between 262BC-260BC
yL9p TIL that in 2007 Leonardo DiCaprio/Warner Bros. won a bidding war against Brad Pitt/Paramount Pictures for the rights to Jordan Belfort’s memoir The Wolf of Wall Street.
MAy8 TIL that Whale vomit is worth tens of thousands of pounds and is used in the productionof perfume
rNMDM TIL that Thalidomide (morning sickness drug that caused birth defects) is a chiral molecule. The drug that was marketed was a 50/50 mixture of left and right-handed molecules. While the left-handed molecule was EFFECTIVE, the right-handed one was highly TOXIC