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TIL that there are saws specifically made as musical instruments

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6EVl7 TIL that a man named Louis Cyr who died in 1912 still holds a number of unbroken weight lifting records, such as a 4,337 lb back lift and a 273 lb one-handed press.
GQBJ TIL if you are older than 29, every puppy you saw as a baby is dead.
YK8v TIL that James Blunt sings the first line “My life is brilliant” of You’re Beautiful twice in the beginning of the song because he mistimed it. It was left in the final recordings.
vP4gB TIL of the Jewel Wasp who Zombiefies cockroaches with an injection to the brain and then leads the cockroach to its den like a pet to lay its larve in it that can feed on the fresh cockroach flesh when it hatches.
yVmOp TIL that in the Indiana Gas Boom of the 1880s, 90% of the gas was wasted in enormous “flambeaux” torch displays for advertising and public amusement. Within a couple decades, the gas ran out and the wells lost pressure, which also prevented most of the oil from being extracted.