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TIL the Yugoslavian Civil War can trace its origin to a farmer masturbating while on the job.

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XEaDP TIL "Tremolo bars" are called that way because Leo Fender had a habit of calling his volume pedal "vibrato pedal" and his vibrato bar "tremolo bar". Tremolo is a change in volume while vibrato is change in pitch.
jNWKa TIL the red stuff dropped from airplanes to put out forest fires also acts as a fertilizer.
0wV1y TiL Traditional English Breakfast of bacon eggs sausage black pudding baked beans & grilled tomato was available only for royals and the wealthy in the 1300s. In the 1950’s when goods became more available to everyone most people were able to adopt this full breakfast. That’s about 600 years later!
GAY0G TIL that since the first exoplanets were discovered in the early 90s, the known number has doubled about every 27 months, to over 4,000 now confirmed.
WPj8 TIL prisoners in the female-only concentration camp Ravensbruck purposefully sewed socks with thin heels and toes so German soldier’s feet would get sore.