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TIL it takes 300 people, 12,000 parts, and one year to make a single Steinway & Sons piano.

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GkY4 TIL - In 526 AD there was a world-wide dust cloud that blocked out the sun for a FULL YEAR, resulting in widespread famine and disease. >80% of Scandinavia and parts of China starved to death, 30% of Europe died in epidemics, and empires fell. No one knows the cause.
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