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TIL The first snowboard was invented in 1917 & patented in 1939

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EBLo TIL that air pollution in China causes 17% of all deaths in china
wLWko TIL about Yun Sim-deok, known as Korea's first soprano. Her song "Hymn of Death" became Korea's first pop song; selling 100,000 copies after her death in 1926. Yun had been having an affair with the married writer Kim Woo-jin and the pair committed suicide together by jumping off a passenger ship.
rNAPe TIL that in the 1700s eccentric farmer James Hirst tried to ride a bull like a horse and train an otter to fish but got banned from a town when his wicker carriage crashed into a shop window.
aw79 TIL According to researchers at Newcastle University, a bacon sandwich can cure a hangover
MroK TIL If a Bald Eagle loses a feather, it will lose the same feather on the other side to remain balanced