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TIL the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge lead to a significant gene discovery

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KYAow TIL the Oscar-nominated 2003 film, “A Mighty Wind” was based on a 20 year-old Saturday Night Live sketch featuring the same key performers: Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, and Christopher Guest (who also directed the film).
XlVQ TIL Valentines Day started life as a fertility festival where two men wearing animal skin would run around slapping passers by with lengths of goat skin.
GePJ TIL - The famous 80’s song Tom’s Diner formed the basis for an algorithm for sound compression that created the MP3, giving the Artist, Suzanne Vega the nickname of ‘The Mother of MP3’
Mnga TIL The World’s Longest Continuously Running Experiment began in 1927 at the University of Queensland Brisbane testing the viscosity of pitch - 8 drops have formed since it began.
N0pN TIL In Bulgarian legends, it is said that if you walk beneath a rainbow, you will change genders