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TIL pianos have pedals

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wLD9o TIL Bill Gates once released a swarm of mosquitoes on an unsuspecting audience at a TED conference in 2009 to make a point. He said "There's no reason only poor people should have the experience," before adding that the mosquitoes were not infectious.
gMoW8 TIL that U2 has performed only one show without the full band; Adam Clayton got so drunk the night before a show in Sydney that he couldn't go on stage and was replaced by one of the band's technicians. Clayton felt so bad he missed the show that he quit drinking.
5YgYD TIL the 9 minute alarm clock "Snooze" is a holdover from when clocks had mechanical gears
6EJZ7 TIL at the U.S. Open and other U.S.-based tennis tournaments, the men and women play with different balls; the men play with the slower, heavy-duty felt while the women play with the faster, regular-duty felt
QJrp6 TIL Schopenhauer called the post-orgasm feeling “devil's laughter" because it is the realization that we are all slaves to the Will of Life, as it takes precedence over our own happiness.