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TIL In music a combination of notes exists known as “The Devil’s Interval”, and it was banned in the 1100’s for evoking sexual feelings and being the direct work of the devil.

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N7BDJ TIL humans were once an endangered species. 1.2 million years ago, at a time when our ancestors were spreading through Africa, Europe and Asia, there were probably only around 18,500 individuals capable of breeding.
epwY4 TIL that it's the Swiss - not the Japanese, or the Indians - who travel the most by rail, per capita, in kilometres. Who would have guessed?
WkvWY TIL that the tobacco industry funded the study that gave us the theory of "Type A/B Personalities" in order to help obscure smoking's connection to heart disease
M8eK TIL that in 1932 a riot invaded Newfoundland’s government building. The prime minister barely escaped injury and resigned. In 1933 the country—like Canada, an independent English-speaking country neighboring the US—gave up self-government and voluntarily became a British colony again.
DRor TIL the heir to the Baskin-Robbins family fortune turned down his inheritance, moved to a small cabin, and swore off dairy after both co-founders died from diseases he believed were connected to their ice cream consumption