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TIL the field of archaeoacoustics looks at the possibility of extracting sound from ancient objects.

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mDAx TIL that Frank Sinatra carried a roll of dimes until the day he died, and was buried with a roll of dimes because he was scared of running out of change when talking to his son’s kidnappers on the pay phone.
X0PvD TIL In the wake of the Second World War, the US occupied Iceland until 2006
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