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TIL Mozart wrote music for an instrument made of glass bowls that Benjamin Franklin helped create

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gMVy9 TIL about Basil II. He is said to have captured 15,000 prisoners and fully blinded 99 of every 100 men, leaving one one-eyed man in each cohort to lead the rest back to their ruler. The king of Bulgaria was struck down by the sight of his blinded army and died two days later after suffering a stroke
kJAw5 TIL that the maximum flying speed by an aircraft was reached on October 3, 1967 when the military jet North American X-15 set a speed record of 4,520 miles per hour.
W7NkL TIL: The humble and magnificent chocolate chip cookie is less than 100 years old.
ADdo4 TIL nuclear blasts bleach everything around it, leaving behind etchings of anything getting in the way of its light, resulting in 'shadows' of people around the blast site
GYvlQ TIL the phrase ‘Drop you a Line’ refers to a sending very short letter: a row of written text is the the singular ‘line’, delivered through a letter ‘dropped’ in a mailbox