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TIL about The Really Terrible Orchestra, founded by author Alexander McCall Smith in 1995. It exists for the musically challenged aka. "those who have been prevented from playing music through lack of talent".

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LkDQr TIL a British charity advises women at risk for forced overseas marriages to hide a spoon in their underwear. This sets off the airport metal detector and gives the woman the chance to be examined in private, away from her family.
X0PkQ TIL John Quincy Adams escaped unscathed from the first fatal train accident in recorded US history. Two died & 21 were injured, including Cornelius Vanderbilt, who broke a leg.
0Do1 TIL that a man attempted to sue Applebee’s after he leaned over a plate of sizzling fajitas to pray. A trial judge dismissed the suit, finding Applebee’s was not required to warn the man “against a danger that is open and obvious.”
j6exQ TIL Mount Thor in Canada has the world's longest vertical drop. If you fell off it, you would fall for over a kilometer before you hit anything.
Ob6g TIL that Dale Dye, a Vietnam vet, was so “pissed off” at Hollywood’s depiction of war that he offered his services as an advisor and now runs “the entertainment industry’s top military consultancy company”. He’s worked on Platoon, The Pacific and, for some reason, Entourage.