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TIL violin strings have been made from 5000 strands of spider silk. They produce ‘a soft and profound timbre’ when played

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8rnL TIL Netlfix offers unlimited vacation time for employees so long as their work gets done.
mxMdx TIL that when Greek Runner Konstantinos Kenteris won gold at the 2000 Olympics for the 200-metre dash, he was the first Greek athlete to win an Olympic sprint since Dionysius of Alexandria in 269 AD.
xZPB TIL in Fahrenheit 451 the gov’t didn’t burn books because they were an oppressive dictatorship. The people voted to ban the books because they had short attention spans didn’t want to be offended
yQEVV TIL Pres. Lincoln visited a field hospital and offered his hand to a wounded soldier. "Mr. President, do you know to whom you offer your hand?" "I do not," Lincoln said. "Well, you offer it to a Confederate colonel." Lincoln replied: "Well, I hope a Confederate colonel will not refuse me his hand."
98Xr TIL Google’s first server rack was made from Lego.