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TIL in 1971 Pink Floyd played a show in London that was so loud it killed all the fish in a lake 100 yards away

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yRnv TIL of Menachem Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Thousands of visitors would line up each Sunday for a brief word of advice or blessing from him. He would give each person a dollar to give to charity, because of his grandfather’s belief that when two people meet, it should benefit a third".
DQoMe TIL that breakdancing is a new medal event to be introduced in Paris 2024
Knkw TIL that according to Navajo culture the weaver of a rug would deliberately put an imperfection, called a “ch’ihónít’i” (“spirit line”), believed to allow the release of the weaver’s spirit from the woven item, and also symbolizes the perfection-in-imperfection
R7xwl TIL that the only Local Post Office (non US Government Run) in America was located on Rattlesnake Island in Ohio
ne57G TIL J.R.R Tolkien was trained as a codebreaker during WWII, and would have worked with Alan Turing to crack Germany’s Enigma Machine, if he hadn’t turned down the offer first.