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TIL about the 'Apprehension Engine' an unconventional instrument that was made to provide the soundtrack to the 2015 fil The VVitch.

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ZoNQ TIL that in the three months preceding the Rwandan Genocide nearly half a million machetes were imported into Rwanda and the primary financier of this mass importation is still at large.
ADdbg TIL, audio content (or computer data) that was normally expected to use audio cassettes for early computers was also distributed on vinyl record type media too.
Y796W TIL The second incarnation of CBS Corporation was actually the legal successor of the original Viacom
EgJ5X TIL that Because English and British generals insisted The French unit that helped librate Paris would be all white, a white french unit had to be shipped in from Morocco, and was supplemented with volunteers from Spain and Portugal. Making it all white but not all French.
0WLj TIL Hawaiian singer, Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwoʻole, famous for his cover of “Somewhere Over The Rainbow”, was a supporter of Hawaiian rights. He used the ukulele to promote awareness of the second class status. After his death, his ashes were publicly scattered into the Pacific on July 12, 1997.