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TIL Clint Eastwood is a lifelong jazz enthusiast, pianist, and scored several films, including Million Dollar Baby

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GY6LG TIL that on August 16, 1858, Queen Victoria sent a message of approximately 100 words to U.S. President James Buchanan. It took nearly seventeen hours to transmit by Morse code through about 2,500 miles of cable at a depth of often more than two miles.
v1MYR TIL The equivalents of the idiom “It’s all Greek to me” in world languages use other kinds of languages other than Greek.
b9VoE TIL Japan in WWII launched over 9,000 balloon bombs that were carried across the Pacific Ocean by the jet stream. The bombs killed 6 people, started forest fires, and one traveled as far East as Farmington, Michigan. The balloons were made of paper.
7rxJX TIL One cubic inch of muscle weighs slightly more than one cubic inch of fat.
Rdll TIL that there’s an actual medical diagnosis, Misophonia, for why people hate hearing other people breathe or eat