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TIL of the Casio VL-1, which combines a keyboard, a synthesiser, and a calculator. Despite its cheap and unorthodox construction, it became popular among musicians across many genres, from the German band Trio in their 1982 song "Da da da" to C418 in the Minecraft OST.

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Z8vjY TIL Feral Pigs in Canada are burrowing and building ‘pigloos‘ to survive the winter
6w0X TIL King Solomon had a net worth around $2.1 trillion dollars today. He received 25 tons of gold yearly (one ounce of gold costs $1320 today, a ton is 32,000 ounces.) He ruled for 40 years.
j6oaM TIL there is probably a small harmless lump on your testes. It is mostly harmless, leftover tissue after birth and is present in around 80% of males.
mnno TIL bottlenose dolphins have longest memory among non-humans - they can recognize whistles of their mates after being separated for more than 20 years
AOWn TIL there is an ancient arthropod ancestor named Hallucigenia because “nothing about it makes much sense”