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TIL that Thomas Edison used to bite his piano

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nekRd TIL that in the Caucasus nation of Georgia has a large amount of people who support the restoration of their monarchy.
E19eV TIL that a Japanese train barks like a dog and snorts like a deer in order to prevent collisions with animals on the railway
jNvbv TIL Teena Marie's legal battle with Motown Records over her contract resulted in "The Brockert Initiative" which made it illegal for a record company to keep an artist under contract without releasing new material for that artist and allows the artist to sign and release with another label.
Z8D4R TIL that in 1974, after the premiere of The Godfather Part II, the gangster Meyer Lansky called Lee Strasberg, who played Hyman Roth (who was based off Lansky) to congratulate him on a job well done
6ERZm TIL George Miller the director and co-creator of the Mad Max series has personally only won 1 Oscar award. Miller won the award for best animated feature for directing Happy Feet. He also directed the sequel to Babe, Babe: Pig in the City.