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TIL that Doritos were made in Disneyland due to stale tortillas being thrown in the garbage

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E1QOx TIL that during World War One conditions on the Eastern Front got so bad that wolves would start attacking groups of soldiers leading to a temporary truce between Germans and Russians so they could deal with the wolves attacking them.
epeJb TIL radio is one of the biggest archives of local history from the 20th century
J1vP4 TIL Kendrick Lamar is the only musician outside of the classical and jazz genres to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music
P1EGe TIL that 10,000 people were involved in the construction of the World Trade Center (c.1965-66 1972) and that 60 people were killed in construction accidents while it was being built. During their lifetimes the towers were host to the birth of 17 babies and 19 murders.
pYeQb TIL about the American Fotoplayer, which was a player piano that combined a piano and an organ plus percussion instruments used to add music and sound effects to silent movies. I also learned that the "circus song" is actually a military march called Entry of the Gladiators