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TIL Danielle Steel has sold 800 million copies of her novels.

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4kV5b TIL about the Nyckelharpa, the national musical instrument of Sweden. It is a string instrument with keys which, when depressed, serve as frets to change the pitch of the string. Dating back to c. 1350, it was recently used by composer Natalie Holt for the background score of the series Loki.
G5jg TIL: Christopher Walken, James Earl Jones, John de Lancie, and John Astin have all recorded a version of Edgar Allan Poes’ “The Raven”. Bonus Vincent Price version in comments
xVlGk TIL that NASA is planning to send a submarine to explore the methane northern sea of Titan, Kraken.
NXxRE TiL bees like to 'play' with balls. A study shows bumble bees went out of their way to roll wooden balls repeatedly despite no apparent incentive. Younger bees rolled more balls than older bees and male bees rolled them for longer than female bees.
Z8BBv TIL 'Spiking a gun' is when a person would drive a spike or their bayonet into the cannon's touch-hole, making it inoperable. The action was done defensively to stop the enemy from using captured cannons and covert spiking missions were launched to stop counterattacks.