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TIL a study shows that 47% of french horn players report hearing loss

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xVvMB TIL There is a Space Screwdriver has been circling low Earth orbit at up to 21,600 miles per hour for the last 35 years.
0wxa1 TIL that Portugal submitted an application to honour Magellan's circumnavigation route via the World Heritage List
vP7 TIL that Neil Gaiman wanted to make a movie of “Anansi Boys”, but the moviemakers wanted to change the black characters to white and remove any magic (in a story about Gods and magic), so he refused.
BrJBr TIL when Martin replicated Joan Baez's Martin 1929 0-45 (purchased in 1962), they included a replica of the note "Too bad you're a communist" which they found inside her original guitar. It was put there by some unidentified repair person sometime in that guitar's 40-ish year career.
XQm6 TIL that during the Gulf War when American forces were faced with extensive trenches of Iraqi soldiers they “opted to use anti-mine plows mounted on tanks and combat earthmovers to simply plow over and bury alive the defending Iraqi soldiers.”