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TIL the two largest annual jazz festivals in the world are held in Montreal and Montreux

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6mwJ TIL a researcher in the 1970s blindfolded participants and told them they were going to play tug-of-war against another team. When they were told they had 3 others pulling with them, they pulled 18% less strenuously than when they were told they were alone. The effect is now known as social loafing.
Abjd TIL the oldest known song dates from 1400BC
0wwXL TIL In 2013, police in the Maldives detained a suspect for loitering near an election polling place on suspicion of black magic. The suspect in question was a coconut. A magician summoned by police established that the coconut was innocent. No arrests were made.
NXjLe TIL about a 16th century book that opens six different ways, revealing six different books in one
rjay TIL of Keggy the Keg. Dartmouth College’s unofficial mascot who is literally a beer keg.