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TIL Rock music was smuggled into Soviet Russia in the form of “Bone Music”: since there was no vinyl, records were pressed onto used X-Ray images.

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yVVBl TIL there is a activity called parahawking that combines paragliding with falconry in which Birds of prey are trained to fly with paragliders, guiding them to thermals. Parahawking was developed by British falconer Scott Mason in 2001
gvBL TIL artificial banana flavour doesn’t taste like bananas because the taste is based of a banana that was wiped out by a plague in the 1950’s.
xVWQg TIL grasshoppers & locusts are the same species. Grasshoppers are generally solitary & innocuous, but when overcrowded, a chemical releases in their brain which turns them into a locust — ravenous, horny, and attracted to large groups. Oddly enough, that brain chemical is: Serotonin
NlXe TIL of “I am Rich”, a $999.99 app which did nothing except state that you are rich. It was bought by eight people before being taken down by Apple.
5Ly9 TIL Green Eggs and Ham was banned in China for allegedly supporting Communism, having references to bestiality, and because the ham looked like a penis