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TIL Stradivarius, of violin fame, also made guitars. While there are hundreds of Stradivarius violins, there's only one remaining playable Stradivarius guitar left in the world.

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8a5rZ TIL of the Fieschi Letter from 1327, which claims that King Edward II was not murdered as always assumed but changed clothes with a servant, killed the gate-keeper where he was imprisoned and escaped to exile in Europe. The letter was rediscovered 500 years later.
0dvQp TIL In the late 1800s, a surgeon from Naples named Efisio Marini, developed a preservation process of the dead that gave a permanent state of natural freshness. He made gifts of preserved body parts to Napoleon III, and even gave a medallion to General Garibaldi made of his own blood.
6EB98 TIL the Romans used wax tablets called tabula for writing notes, which was erased by heating the wax and then smoothing it. This was termed 'tabula rasa' from which came the philosophical concept of 'clean slate'.
VBLMQ TIL Gangkhar Puensum; the tallest unclimbed mountain in the world, will likely never be climbed due to a ban on mountaineering in Bhutan 🇧🇹
rB00 TIL Most cars on the road in Cuba are Classic Cars, due to the Embargo not allowing the import of cars newer than 1959. This restriction was lifted in 2011.