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TIL there used to be an instrument called a hurdy-gurdy. Apparently, it was used for “medieval raves.”

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DrJV TIL after a bloody war with Ethiopia in 2001, half of Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki’s Cabinet signed a letter asking him to reconsider his authoritarian style of government. He promptly charged his own ministers with treason and threw them in jail, where they remain today.
j6dkj TIL that King Cobras are not even actual cobras, despite the name. Also, they are world's longest venomous snakes.
A4N4 TIL The town of Dull in Scotland has been twinned with the town of Boring, Oregon since 2012. In 2013 the town of Bland, Australia joined them in what has become known as the ‘Trinity of Tedium’.
MeDyA TIL about the trials for Rocket Mail. Since 1810 inventors have tried to deliver mail via artillery, and later rockets. In 1959 the US navy fired a cruise missile filled with mail from a submarine to a Naval base in Florida. Despite enthousiasm by the Postmaster General it was a one time thing.
D4Ne TIL The first woman in space was not Sally Ride, but Valentina Tereshkova