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TIL barbery and surgery were once the same profession.

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woMQM TIL that the battle of Tsushima, also known in Japan as the Battle of the Sea of Japan was the only decisive engagement ever fought between modern steel battleship fleets and the first in which wireless telegraphy (radio) played a critically important role.
NxQe TIL that the Pyramids of Giza were originally covered in white limestone
loaNG TIL President Lyndon Johnson an owner of the Aphicar loved playing pranks on his passengers. It involved barrelling the vehicle down a hill into a lake and exclaiming to his passengers that the brakes had malfunctioned, while they had no idea the car was designed to float in water.
neJ5d TIL "Weird Al" Yankovic did not intend his song "Albuquerque" to be well-received as he wrote it as a joke specifically to "annoy people for 12 minutes." It ended up becoming one of his most popular songs.
78kpb TIL no hurricane ever crossed the equator.