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TIL about Borneo’s enigmatic diamond deposits and how scientists believe some of them come from the split off from Australia

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xV87g TIL The Octavia was an effects pedal designed for Jimi Hendrix by his sound technician, Roger Mayer. It reproduces the input signal from a guitar one octave higher and/or lower in pitch, and mixes it with the original and added distortion fuzz. It can be heard in guitar solos on the song Purple Haze
Mowa TIL: The Murphy bed is named after William L Murphy who needed a way to hide his bed in order to have a girl over to his one bedroom apartment b/c of the moral codes of the times.
p8Wg4 TIL Bill Gates’ mugshot was used to create the Outlook 2010 default profile picture
NXdJM TIL that while it's a grain agriculturally, a vegetable culinarily, corn is botanically a fruit
OGbpg TIL the most attended professional wrestling event ever is "Collision in Korea" held in Pyongyang, North Korea by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). After acquiring WCW, the WWE has not acknowledged or released the event on streaming services.