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TIL that Leo Fender, the founder of Fender Guitars, did not know how to play a guitar at all.

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D1Rde TIL about the Wittmoor bog trackway, two historic corduroy (wooden log) roads, discovered in 1898 in Hamburg, Germany. Dating of the logs used to construct the road reveal they were cut down in 330 AD during the Roman Empire.
XLvE TIL Caesar Salad was created in Mexico
R5NP1 TIL Ancient Earth May Have Smelled Like Rotten Eggs
pdZG TIL Indians are the world’s biggest bookworms, reading on average 10.7 hours a week, twice as long as Americans, according to a new survey.
9wKBp TIL Former US first lady Jane Pierce was extremely reluctant to move into the White House. Before her husband Franklin Pierce became president, she prayed every night that he would lose the presidential election. She is said to have fainted upon hearing the news of his nomination.