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TIL that the bagpipes are a double reed instrument, using reeds similar to the oboe and bassoon.

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BgyDe TIL Canada's "loonie" $1 dollar coin was supposed to show a canoe, but a discount courier was used to save $43.50, and the dies were stolen.
508k TIL honeybees can recognize individual human faces.
GYQwJ TIL that Tut Ankh Amun's tomb is the only tomb to date to be discovered intact and complete. All others were looted some time during the years. This is the unbroken seal to the tomb's door since it was closed 3,341 years ago
neadW TIL under European law, all wine bottles bearing the name „champagne“ must be bottled within 100 miles of the champagne region of France. Any other „champagne“ is considered sparkling wine and must be labeled as such. It also must be hand-picked grapes pressed in a closed environment.
W7RMd TIL about the White Revolution, a sweeping -- and mostly successful -- program to modernize Iran. One element of it ended feudalism and gave farms to the farmers, but many of them ended up worse off than they were under feudalism. This caused a domino effect that led to the Islamic Revolution.