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TIL The actual origin of the word Lyric stems from poetry recited alongside someone playing a Lyre in Ancient Greece.

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oNQY TIL the idiom “Turning a blind eye” is attributed to Admiral Horatio Nelson who, in the midst of battle and given the permission to retreat by his superior, lifted the telescope to his eye (blinded from an earlier injury) and said “I really do not see the signal” and pressed on with the attack.
rRZO4 TIL: Eric Dolphy died in Berlin becuase Dr's took a stereotypical view that, as a black jazz musician, he would be a junkie (he was actually a teetotaler, and a Diabetic)
8exOb TIL Saint Nicolas (the real Santa) is technically Asian as he was born in Antalya, Turkey
KE9R TIL that wild Chimpanzees and Orangutans have been observed using spears to aid in hunting
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