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TIL Rachmaninoff had hands so large that he could play C Eb G C G (An entire octave and a half!)

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XEVn6 TIL about Ron Stallworth, the first African-American police officer and detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department who conducted an infiltration of the Ku Klux Klan
KJgG TIL in the early 1900s, 6-day long bicycle races were quite popular. The winner would be whoever rode the greatest distance in the 6days. They would get extremely little sleep and hallucinate on the track.
78r5Z TIL that the sun actually puts off white light and it only looks yellow to us because of our atmosphere scattering blue light away (which is why the sky looks blue)
91WB TIL in 2014 Hot Pockets issued a major recall after the meat in their product was found to have been processed using diseased or unfit animals. The USDA wrote the products were “unfit for human food”.
VrZk TIL Harald Hardrada was a Viking who fled from his native Norway to Russia, then went on to become an elite guardsman in Eastern Roman Empire and fought in Iraq. He then return to Russia to marry a princess and arrived back in Norway as a king and finally invaded England with his army.