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TIL the English word for Trombone used to be Sackbut
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TIL the world record for longest time standing on one leg is 76 hours and 40 minutes set by Suresh Arulanantham Joachim in 1997.
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TIL: Fiddlesticks are traditional instruments used to add percussion to old-time/Cajun fiddle music, allowing two people to play the fiddle at the same time. While the fiddler plays in normal fashion, a second person uses a pair of sticks, or knitting needles etc. to tap out a rhythm on the strings.
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TIL The inventors of Mountain Dew originally made it to be mixed with whiskey.
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TIL That Orson Welles had met both Hitler and Winston Churchill in his lifetime
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TIL during the battle scenes in Braveheart, the extras who were members of the F.C.A., the Irish version of the territorial army, members of different companies took the chance to beat each other up during the filming which explains the realistic fighting