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TIL Jimmy Carter is the only American president to have visited Hiroshima’s ground zero

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9w88p TIL That Komodo Dragon is a species of Monitor Lizard.
D1d6e TIL that the famous Law and Order sound effect, 'The Clang' is an amalgamation of nearly a dozen sounds, including an actual gavel, a jail door slamming, and five hundred Japanese monks walking across a hardwood floor.
N7ldM TIL that under the British Rule, the Queen is a higher value playing card than the King, as the value of the cards changes dependent upon the sex of the current monarch.
eZdJ TIL we evolved so that our left testicle is lower than our right in order to prevent compression of them in impact
vP198 TIL about Daphne Oram, a medium-inspired musician who wrote the first ever real-time electronic composition at the age of 23 and later invented the Oramics Machine—an electronic instrument "played" by painting lines and marks on film.