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TIL: a group of audiophiles were unable to tell the difference between music transmitted over monster cables vs a coat hanger.

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78bxr TIL that Christopher Plummer was a great-grandson of 3rd Canadian Prime Minister John Abbott
wZ5P TIL after WW1 the French had the railway cars that Germany surrender in stored in a museum. During WW2 when France was preparing to surrender, Hitler ordered the walls of museum torn down and the railway cars returned to the exact spot of the 1918 armistice in order to humiliate the French.
BY1r TIL that in 86 AD, the Colosseum was filled with water to stage a full naval battle
4kkL5 TIL that the treatment for being scalped is to have holes drilled through the exposed skull.
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