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TIL there’s a sound in Gustav Mahler’s 6th symphony that requires a giant hammer(or similar equipment) to make — now called the ‘Mahler hammer’.

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YGwd TIL that the number of administrators at U.S. universities has more than doubled in the last 25 years, vastly outpacing the increase in students and teaching faculty.
yXGX TIL in 2011, Florida changed its yellow light intervals to below federal recommendations in a deliberate attempt to increase red light tickets.
XaJP TIL during the sentencing of his war crimes trial, Hermann Göring (one of Hitler’s top officers) asked to be shot as a soldier and not hung as a common man. The court refused and instead he committed suicide with a potassium cyanide capsule smuggled into a fountain pen.
P1aZe TIL about “Umuganda,” a national holiday in Rwanda taking place on the last Saturday of every month for mandatory nationwide community work.
1aKMW TIL In 1161 the Bishop of Winchester was the largest brothel owner in the UK and his prostitutes were called the Winchester Geese.