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TIL there is a dialect of German only spoken in Texas
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TIL when deaf people with schizophrenia 'hear voices', they hallucinate hands communicating using sign language
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TIL that in 2007, just before Australia’s federal election, it was revealed former PM Kevin Rudd had attended a New York strip club while serving in parliament, but a poll released shortly after showed that Rudd’s approval rating had INCREASED since the revelations. He went on to win the election.
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TIL about the "Symphony of Industrial Horns". A avant-garde rendition of The Internationale performed by Arseny Avraamov in Baku, Azerbaijan, 1922. The Symphony utilized live sounds of trains, naval vessels, factories and other industrial installations across the city as its instruments.
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TIL PLEBS really means "commoners"
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TIL - Prior to 1879 solid chocolate was gritty and not popular until Rodolphe Lindt mistakenly left a mixer containing chocolate running overnight.