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TIL Belgium went 541 days without a government
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TIL throughout the 1970’s the Grateful Dead used a 32ft tall PA system that could deliver perfect sound 600ft away. It had to be hauled in caravans of semi trucks and took 4 hours to assemble. They called it “The Wall of Sound”.
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TIL that the USPS (United States Postal Service) does NOT offer postal banking services anymore, while almost every other developed country does it. The United States Postal Savings System existed until 1960's.
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TIL that sideburns is a corruption of the word burnsides, named after Civil War general Ambrose E. Burnsides and his glorious facial hair.
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TIL an object known as the Utsuro-bune, meaning "hollow boat" in Japanese, containing a young woman who did not speak Japanese washed up on the shore of Japan in 1803. The woman had red hair, wore clothes of strange fabrics, and held a box she did not allow anyone else to touch.
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TIL that to keep young military recruits' attention, the Nazi's tiger tank manual was filled with dirty, jokes, limericks and porn. The manual also contained a big breasted blond character named Elvira, usually sketched in red to more readily jump out of the pages.