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TIL the popular steel slide guitar sound of Hawaii was taught to them by visiting cowboys from a small town in California.

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4XL95 TIL Charlie Chaplin made his first sound film in 1940, which was 13 years after the emergence of talkies. His silent films in this time were still very popular.
KYXmB TIL that ulugh beg, the sultan of the timurid empire and grandson of the turco-Mongol conqueror Timur, was an astronomer and mathematician who composed zij-i-sultani of 994 stars, generally considered one of the greatest star catalogues between Ptolemy and Tycho Brahe.
awJL TIL Rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard took a limo to cash his welfare check.
6EGQ7 TIL that in the past 100 years, parts of Houston have sunk by up to 12 feet due to aquifer depletion. This subsidence messes with drainage channels and makes the city prone to flooding.
Gvo1 TIL a study done on deaths during pregnancy between 1993-1998 found that homicide was the leading cause of death for pregnant women.