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TIL Kevin Shields of my bloody valentine had 12 different Jazzmaster guitars all in different tunings each for different songs, because tuning one guitar was hard to do live

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jwGN TIL during the Nanking Massacre, it is estimated Japanese soldiers raped 20,000 women. They were often killed after being raped, often through explicit mutilation or by stabbing a bayonet, long stick of bamboo, or other objects into the vagina. Young children were cut open to allow them to be raped.
yQ1KX TIL of Snorri Sturluson who authored the 'Prose Edda' which is a major source for Norse mythology today. He became a lawyer in Iceland in 1218 & was made a knight in Sweden. However, he was assassinated by agents of the King of Norway in 1241.
Oxd1 TIL The Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World, stood for a mere 50 years before it was destroyed by an earthquake. Its ruins stood and attracted visitors for way longer than the original statue (reportedly hundreds of years) before it was finally recycled for scrap metal.
QNKr6 TIL that in China there is a village called Houtouwan that has been "swallowed" by nature. It's located on the island of Shengshan, and in its heyday it was inhabited by three thousand families.
pYmoA TIL the earliest written version of Revelations says that 616 is the number of the beast. Why it changed to 666 is anybody's guess.