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TIL: For the last 10 years you're far more likely to die from homicide in the US Army than die in combat

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9bPD TIL that the first music “streaming” service was invented in 1897. People in New York could call up the Telharmonium, an electric organ that took up the entire floor of a building, which would play live music through their phone speakers.
nblW TIL That Lennart Green, world champion close-up card magician was disqualified from the 1988 competition when the magician judges thought he must have been using stooges to shuffle the cards. He performed the same trick 3 years later, asking the judges to do the shuffling and won.
l77r7 TIL Plastic injection molding was invented in the 1800s to manufacture billiard balls out of celluloid, chiefly to replace ivory and save the lives of African elephants
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