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TIL in the ABC song, the note for G is a G
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TIL the Ancient Babylonians took their beer so seriously, if a brewer was found to be watering down his beer, he’d either be drowned in the barrel or forced to keep drinking it till he died
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TIL that since citizens of Turkmenistan receive free gas from the government, many citizens just leave their stove burners running 24/7 to avoid paying unnecessarily for matches.
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TIL that Washington Irving the American creator of Sleepy Hollow was integral to popularizing our current understanding of not only Halloween, but also Christmas. His stories of a British manor at Christmas time would go on to inspire Charles Dickens.
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TIL that CRT screens were used as a form of random access memory in early computers. A grid of dots was used to represent the RAM on the screen and the static created by the dot was read by a thin sheet of metal set in front of the screen.
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TIL about Doji Morita, a Japanese singer-songwriter in the 70s, who never shown her face or identity during her career as she always wore a wig and sunglasses. Until today, no one has ever seen her real face or known exactly who she was.