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TIL that in order to play the didgeridoo, you must learn to breath circularly. This is done by simultaneously inhaling with the nose and pushing air out of the mouth. Kenny G used the technique in 1997 to win a world record for the longest note ever recorded, an E-flat for 45 minutes and 47 seconds

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GnZ5 TIL there was supposed to be a Black Taj Mahal opposite of the original, but was never fully built.
x6ppg TIL on May 7th Dana Plato appeared on The Howard Stern Show where many callers to the show insulted Plato and questioned her sobriety. The next day she died of an overdose.
oBX9r TIL that from 1908 until 1940 you could mail-order a build your own house kit from the Sears Catalog. A great many of them still exist today.
1a7jO TIL of the great escape attempt of Juan, an Andean spectacled bear in Berlin zoo. Juan paddled across a moat using a log as a raft, scaled a wall and then finally appeared to commandeer a bicycle before being shot with a tranquiliser gun.
wL84J TIL of the "American Hippo Bill," introduced in 1910 by Representative Robert F. Broussard, which proposed importing hippos from Africa to the bayous of Louisiana. Ideally, the hippos would eat invasive water hyacinth and Americans could integrate hippo meat into their diets.