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TIL that Creedence Clearwater Revival are a band of San Francisco natives, and were certainly not “born on a bayou.”

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VMO10 TIL that the National Orchestra of Wales used a "sound box" so deaf people can experience a concert. Through vibrations, it transmits music to people with their hands on it or even lying on top of it. One participant called it "something none of us would ever have thought that we would experience."
4Q8o TIL that in 2018 the city of Chicago is implementing a surveillance system, called Array Of Things, which monitors climate, traffic, pedestrians, and other urban features.
oRZgK TIL - That the US has 34 metric tons of plutonium bomb cores left over from the Cold War that are being kept at the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas.