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TIL that guitar stores have a “forbidden riff” that when played, the player will immediately be told to stop.

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vPedj TIL that the British colonizers set about defining 2,378 castes belonging to 43 “races,” by measuring the noses. They called it the "nasal index"
a5lM TIL that the same Russian man that created the instrument called the theremin, also created a listening device in 1945 that hung embedded inside a wooden plaque in the US embassy for seven years. It was called “The Thing”
ONe7 TIL the 1978 “UFO abduction” of Frederick Valentich has been solved: out searching for UFOs, the inexperienced pilot saw “4 points of light of an elongated UFO”. Recent astronomical simulations show a perfect diamond formed by Mercury, Venus, Mars and nearby star Antares.
wkRo TIL that between the 14th and 17th century, Europe was prone to incidents of “Dancing Mania” where up to thousands of people danced erratically for days, weeks, or months. Many collapsed from exhaustion; some died.
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