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TIL the difference between a violin and a fiddle isn't the number of snares, shape, size, or anything physical but rather what is being played on it. Classical, Chamber Music, and Jazz for instance are played with a violin. Genres like Folk, Country, Pop, and Rock are played with a fiddle.

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6jXw TIL that when the studio behind ‘Star Trek’ received a letter from a builder asking how to make automatic sliding doors that opened and closed as fast as on the Enterprise, the reply explained that the doors were manually operated by an offstage crewman. If too late, cast would hit unopened doors.
D1eyg TIL free services like Craigslist have decimated the classified advertising departments of newspapers, some of which depended on classifieds for 70% of their ad revenue. Research has shown that Craigslist cost the newspaper industry $5.4 billion from 2000-2007.
5YdR TIL that there is a conspiracy theory that the Titanic never sunk. Instead, it was her sister ship, the Olympic, and it was an insurance scam.
XEwWD TIL the border between California and Nevada was not completely agreed upon until 1985.
LQvpV TIL in 1965, a bus traveling to Ankara collided with a truck carrying nitric acid. The collision caused the acid to spill, and panicked the passengers. They evacuated the bus and suffered burns ln their feet. 17 people melted to death after jumping into puddle to save theirselves in distress.