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TIL of Jesse Rae, a Scottish funk musician who dresses as a Scottish Centurion, and whose career ended largely due to his mistrust of the English.

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4Krb TIL unclean vocals (screams, yells, shouts) commonly used in metal genres, originated in the Opera, with the first recognizable use being in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck.
K0jR TIL that the largest virus in the world has been called the Pandoravirus. They bore no morphological or genomic resemblance to any previously defined virus families leading the researchers to speculate that this virus may represent a previously unknown branch of the tree of life.
KkOa TIL : Chinese police use crossbow to stop suicide bombers without detonating their vests
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