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TIL that Oman has a strong tradition of Scottish bagpipe music, owing to their Sultan having served in a Scottish regiment of the British Army

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6PbQ TIL That ESPN used to broadcast the card game Magic: The Gathering
ADB TIL that the original title for the show Friends was supposed to be Insomnia Cafe.
6EwDW TIL that a 2012 study found 1,458 “new to science” bacteria species in our belly buttons. People’s bacterial profiles are unique, like fingerprints, and can be used in the same way. One person had a bacterium only ever found in Japanese soil," where he had never been.
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