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TIL of the Blackbird violin. It's a violin whose body is made entirely out of stone. It was carved from black diabase stone with slight modifications to allow it to be playable.

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v8rD TIL Carl Johnson was the Director of the Jefferson County, CDPHE. He reported that soil around the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant contained 44 times more plutonium than the government claimed. In 1977 he reported higher-than-average rates of cancer among the local people. In 1981 he was fired.
OGoP4 TIL that Q-tips were originally called "Baby Gays"
gBPD TIL that the CIA museum has a smoking pipe designed to receive radio messages and relay them silently to the user’s ear by sending vibrations up the user’s jawbone.
E14E7 TIL that the remains of Pocahontas's wedding chapel were found in Jamestown by archaeologists in 2010. The mud-walled structure, where Pocahontas married John Rolfe in 1614, was "the first major English church building in North America."
Lx4v TIL in Japan they have lactation bars offering human breast milk. 2,000 (18$ USD) yen gets you a shot and 5,000 (46$ USD) yen gets you the nipple.