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TIL Mozart wrote music for the Glass Armonica.
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TIL an Army dentist was able to mow down almost 100 enemy soldiers with a machine gun in WWII to protect his wounded soldiers.
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TIL of Buckethead, a musician who wears a KFC bucket on his head and a mask on his face and can play an electric guitar one-handed, to a degree.
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TIL that the sharp, sudden pain in the left side if your chest that hurts more when you breathe is called “Precordial Catch”
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TIL that the black dots on a windscreen are called frits and have multiple purposes, including serving as contact surface for the adhesive, protecting it from UV light and ensuring a smooth temperature gradient.
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TIL The story of mass panic in New York caused by the radio broadcast of The War of The Worlds in 1938 is largely false and was caused by the newspaper industry sensationalizing the story, seeing it as an opportunity to attack the radio as being an untrustworthy source of news.