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TIL Brian Eno has described himself as a "non-musician".

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8eXoZ TIL the cannibal sandwich is a staple of Wisconsin cuisine, the sandwich consists of raw ground round beef on rye bread topped with chopped onion. The dish prompted the Wisconsin Department of Health Services to tweet a warning against eating raw meat.
BrW9y TIL Grapes in a microwave create plasma because the wave lengths are the same size as the grapes
M8kb TIL the top sumo referees carry a dagger, to symbolize killing themselves if they make a bad call
yQ7Pa TIL of Freud's patient diagnosed with hysteria based on menstrual symptoms. A surgeon friend claimed he could cure it with nose surgery. Surgery botched, left her hemorrhaging and disfigured. Freud claimed her hemorrhage is "wish-bleeding" caused by a hysterical longing for the affection of others.
b9VZ7 TIL the hole in Alice in Wonderland was inspired by the gypsum sinkholes in Ripon, Yorkshire. A girl called Mary Badcock may have inspired Alice, and in 1999 there was a sinkhole in her garden.