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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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vrPr TIL the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird was so fast that the standard evasive action in case a surface-to-air missile launch was detected was simply to accelerate and outfly the missile
0d6ly TIL the Allais Effect refers to the allegedly unexpected behavior of pendulums which is observed to occur only during a solar eclipse
nABW TIL a dog named Chaser has the largest tested memory of any non-human animal. She can identify 1,022 toys by their name and retrieve them by name and by category.
Y7noG TIL that herbs are the fresh part of the plant while spice is the dried root, stalk, seed or fruit of the plant and is almost always dried not fresh.
KxB9 TIL that children don’t detect sarcasm till they’re about 6 and don’t get the humor in it till they’re about 10