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TIL that US President Calvin Coolidge had a high almost helium like public speaking voice.

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69LOW TIL There is archaeological evidence that Vikings reached Baghdad, the centre of the Islamic Empire.
6E8Mm TIL that Isaac Asimov died from complications of HIV. In 1983 got HIV from a blood transfusion during heart surgery. His doctors told him to keep it quiet. 10 Ten years later, after most of Asimov's physicians had died, Asimov's family agreed that the HIV story should be made public.
4A5N TIL that audio experts could not tell the difference between $100 Monster speaker cables and cables made from soldering together old coat hangers
kJwZB TIL the Frenchmen who invented margarine for Napoleon III first invented a syphilis treatment
PYxbZ TIL A 170-person Swiss infantry unit once got lost during training exercises and inadvertently crossed 1.5km into Liechtenstein. The Swiss army later informed Liechtenstein of the incursion and offered official apologies, to which a ministry spokesperson responded, "No problem, these things happen."