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TIL the US Senate used the same gavel for 165 years until Richard Nixon cracked it

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78ARX TIL before overdrive guitar pedals were invented, rock pioneer Link Wray would intentionally stab the speaker cone of his guitar amps with a pencil to achieve a distorted sound. This resulting effect can be heard on his 1958 song “Rumble”.
dDYd7 TIL the first same-sex marriage in Spain was performed in the year 1061.
8ekRb TIL gummy worms were invented in 1981 by Trolli, the German candy company.
W7vp4 TIL that when Indonesia’s Mount Tambora erupted, humanity was swept into a period of global erratic temperatures that gave way to the name “The Year without Summer.” This also inspired Mary Shelley to write “Frankenstein.”
E1Q77 TIL all 66 characters with speaking roles in the 1984 cartoon series ThunderCats were voiced by only eight actors, with each actor voicing an average of 8.25 characters.