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TIL there's only one major band instrument manufacturer left in the United States. It's in Indiana.

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WJBY TIL that Kim Jong-un has a degree in physics.
g9wA TIL Robert Damiens, who tried to kill Louis XV, had his hand burned with sulphur. Molten wax, molten lead, and boiling oil were poured into him. Then he was partially dismembered by harnessed horses and the executioner completed it with an axe. Then his still-living torso was burnt at the stake.
1aevX TIL an Australian news anchor wore the same suit every day for a year and no one noticed
v1BA8 TIL - The bear on the California flag is the California grizzly bear, an animal that is now extinct.
Lkxjv TIL : Anthropodermic bibliopegy is the practice of binding books in human skin.Surviving examples of human skin bindings have often been commissioned, performed, or collected by medical doctors, who have access to cadavers, sometimes those of executed criminals.