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TIL that the world's largest collection of flutes (yes, the musical instrument) is held by the US Library of Congress.

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Ybbx TIL a comedian named Tommy Cooper died on stage and the audience thought it was part of the show.
7bkp TIL that 3 years after illegally joining the Marines at the age of 14, Jacklyn Lucas snuck onto a ship bound for Iwo Jima, stormed the beach without a rifle, and threw himself on top of two grenades to protect his team. He survived, and earned the Medal of Honor at the age of 17.
Eg0BW TIL you can trademark smells, e.g, Crayola Crayons have a registered scent mark, described as “a unique scent of pungent, aldehydic fragrance combined with the faint scent of hydrocarbon wax and an earthy clay”.
Y7Oe7 TIL a steamboat missing for 132 years was discovered 45 feet under a field a half-mile away from the river it sank in. Among the 200 tons of cargo recovered from the boat were bottles of liquor, ketchup, preserved fruits for pies, and bright green sweet pickles which were still edible.
VZRG TIL the five largest meat companies in the US dumped 48,229,609 pounds of toxic pollutants into waterways in 2014 according to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)