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TIL that on Earth, sound has a "maximum" volume (194 dB)

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Rlja TIL the U.S. Army Soldier’s Creed was changed in 2003 to remove the part of never doing anything that will “disgrace my uniform, my unit, or my country”
eEmE TIL When Beethoven went deaf, he composed his music by hacking the legs off his piano and sitting on the floor so he could feel the vibrations.
5YR7n TIL Russia built a city in China as the terminus for the Trans-Siberian railway. Its Chinese name, Dalian, comes from the Russian word for "far away".
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V9jB TIL A survey of the largest symphony orchestras in the US revealed 27% of musicians had used a common heart medication called a beta blocker to inhibit stage fright, and 70% of those who had used the drug had obtained it from a friend and not a medical doctor.