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TIL Hans Zimmer is self-taught and has only had two weeks of piano lessons

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dLX9 TIL Pumpernickle is German for “Devil’s Fart.” This name actually predates the bread.
nWxgG TIL that some of the stones used in the creation of Stonehenge were bluestones from the Preseli Hills in western Wales and may have been chosen for their acoustic properties.
R71al TIL that a Latvian man evaded the Soviets in bunkers in the woods for the entirety of the 50 year Soviet occupation. He came put when the last Soviet troops left, age 70.
DMwP TIL that 19yo Joe Rogan won the US Open Taekwondo lightweight championship, and then went on to beat both the US middle and heavyweight champions. He is also a kickboxer, Judoka, and holds black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
ne1xB TIL In 1863, scientists started to doubt that the Sun is actually burning coal and proposed that the heat of the Sun has been kept up by meteoric bodies falling into it. "If the sun were composed of coal, it would last at the present rate only 5,000 years"