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TIL 5 Kyoto temples have bloodstained ceilings taken from Fushimi Castle floorboards, site of a siege & mass suicide that delayed Ishida Mitsunari’s forces. This allowed Tokugawa leyasu to prepare for the battle of Sekigahara, unifying Japan. The ceilings honor the fallen samurai of Fushumi Castle.

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XjLj TIL the Led Zeppelin song “Gallows Pole” is a version of a centuries-old folk song. Traditionally the main character bribes the executioner to let them go. In the Zeppelin version the executioner takes the money but carries through with the execution.
pYYPO TIL in 1997 scientists successfully turned light into matter and antimatter
grVP7 TIL that California’s 1967 Magic Mountain Music Festival was favourably reviewed for safety in press accounts, as fight or disturbances were not an issue, and at the end of the day, trash was placed in or next to the garbage cans provided. The immense crowd left Mount Tamalpais as they had found it.
NX6aE TIL that plant bio-electricity can be harvested and transformed into ambient music with devices which measure slight electrical variations in a plant and translate them into musical notes.
9YrVB TIL of Matthew Hahn, a thief who stole a safe, cracked it open, and discovered pictures of the owner molesting a 2 year old. He then turned it in anonymously, and ended up getting sentenced to 14 years for unrelated crimes, the owner got sentenced to 30.