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TIL Zildjian (cymbal company) is almost 400 years old

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nDXW TIL that the first all-black regiment to fight in WWI was given the name “Harlem Hellfighters” by their German enemies who noted their ferocity. Their French allies, who fought alongside them when other Americans would not, called them “Men of Bronze”
Z84aG TIL Astronomers discovered a "zombie" star that went supernova in 1954...then exploded again in 2014. According to the study's lead author, "This supernova breaks everything we thought we knew about how they work."
ADWv4 TIL Spielberg initially considered making Schindler's List entirely in German and Polish, but decided "there's too much safety in reading [subtitles]. It would have been an excuse [for the audience] to take their eyes off the screen and watch something else."
MYLA TIL that in from the 1880s to the 1900s, pollution caused by horses was so severe, the presence of the (then unheard of) automobile was regarded as a saviour, as it did not pollute the streets with manure, urine and dead horses.
gMKp4 TIL Hey Jude, Bohemian Rhapsody, Tiny Dancer, Life on Mars? and more were recorded on the exact same C. Bechstein piano