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TIL Before becoming a global pop sensation, Taylor Swift grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania, which inspired her song "Christmas Tree Farm"

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Rop6 TIL a sly foodie convinced upper class Americans not to ever wash their salad bowls. The idea was that the dressing would cure the wooden bowl over time and make better and better salads. The real result was a rancid, smelly bowl. The practice continued for thirty years.
8e6d8 TIL about Bogdan Zerajic, whose failed assassination attempt inspired Gavrilo Princip to assassinate Franz Ferdinand two years later, sending the world into World War 1.
M76lV TIL a "Watchdog timer" is the name of a chip that allows a computer to reboot itself without human intervention if something fails. (e.g. a Mars rover in distress)
Jnlj TIL Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi opened a Blues Brothers Bar in Chicago. It was unlicensed, and shut down by the authorities in 1982.
5a9R TIL the reason behind spiral stairs being clockwise: In medieval times, they were designed this way in castles, so that attackers running up the stairs had their sword-arm near the center column, while the defenders had more room to swing their sword.