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TIL the Word "Piano" is a Shortened form of "Pianoforte"

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WkJrN TIL: J. Edgar Hoover opposed Japanese Internment Camps. Saying the decision was “based on public and political pressure, not factual data”.
VK5D TIL We are still making scientific discoveries about water because it is so bizarre. Water ice has 15 different phases, and there is now a strange, “quasicrystal” form when the ice is only 2 molecule layers thick.
QJdRk TIL that cheetahs are so shy that zoos give them their own emotional "support dogs".
0dW81 TIL An engineer named Walter "Taffy" Holden accidentally took off in a military jet without knowing how to fly it
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