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TIL That there’s a cookbook called “Fat Brad” that features recipes for all the meals that Brad Pitt has eaten onscreen

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9Yo97 TIL The English horn is traditionally heard almost exclusively in symphony orchestras and has been stereotyped of playing only sad, prayerful, and pastoral music since Hector Berlioz first described it as suitable for only those sentiments in his 1844 treatise
4XRAo TIL about MARAUDER, a real plasma cannon developed by the United States Air Force in 1993. The device could fire a ring of plasma with the force of 5 pounds of TNT. Impact effects included a high temperature explosion with x-ray radiation and EMP.
6EJG8 TIL of Nancy Hart, a heroine of the American revolutionary war celebrated for repeatedly outsmarting and killing loyalist soldiers in Georgia.She is best known for an incident where she singlehandedly incapacitated 6 Tory soldiers who walked into her home and demanded that she cook a turkey for them
d8pd9 TIL that approximately 11% of people have a mental health condition globally.
4kpY5 TIL Trota of Salerno was a 12th century female medical practitioner who wrote on a variety of topics including gynecology and cosmetics, and her writings were used by doctors for centuries