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TIL About Polyphonic Singing - singing two notes at the same time

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GV7N TIL that the Greek navy maintains a reconstruction of an ancient Athenian trireme, the HS Olympias. Kept in dry dock in Athens, it is the only ship of its kind in the world.
wLgA7 TIL Last year, researchers in the US and UK found that countries with an existing culture of gender equality have an even smaller proportion of women taking degrees in science, technology and mathematics (STEM).
Yp5XZ TIL there's a music genre that remakes modern music as if it was performed in the medieval times called "bardcore"
5YeRn TIL red spider lilies are poisonous and were planted near burial sites in Japan to prevent animals from digging up corpses. As a result the flowers are now associated with death, funerals, and the afterlife.
46RR TIL that 11 squared is 121, 111 squared is 12321, 1111 squared is 1234321, and so on, leading up to 111111111 squared, which is 12345678987654321. Such results are known as palindromic numbers