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TIL Eddie Van Halen recorded the 1995 piece “Strung Out” back in 1984 on a piano filled with things like ping-pong balls, batteries, knives, forks. Producer Bruce Fairbairn picked out 90 seconds of a 10-hour tape recording that started with Eddie creating harmonics directly in the piano’s strings.
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TIL every September, Usenet would see an influx of college freshmen getting access through school, frustrating users with their lack of online etiquette. Then in 1993, ISPs began offering Usenet access, overwhelming communities with the influx of newbies and creating the term “Eternal September”
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TIL many Native American tribes used fire for thousands of years to manage forest brush for small game hunting as well as creating grasslands for big game to be hunted. This resulted in many species of plants, animals, and fungi to become extinct as the forest became a fire-adapted ecosystem.
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TIL that Batman’s suit, arsenal of awesome gadgets, and secret identity were not created by Bob Kane. Gotham City was not even created by him. All these creations belong to Bill Finger, who died penniless while Kane did everything he could to suppress Finger’s involvement in creating the character.
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TIL Newark, NJ was founded in 1666 by disgruntled Puritans from Connecticut. Wishing to start a theocracy, they named their settlement New Ark believing they were creating a new ark of the covenant. New Ark remained a Puritan theocracy until 1746 when Episcopalian missionaries built a church.
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