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TIL: The Band Chevelle’s hit 2009 song “Jars”, A Song About Saving The Environment, Has A Music Video With Two Alternate Endings That Have Nothing To Do With The Song. The Band Was Not Involved With The Production And Has No Idea What The Video’s Meaning Is, Assuming There Is One

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x6aab TIL: The human body contains trillions of microorganisms — outnumbering human cells by 10 to 1. Because of their small size, however, microorganisms make up only about 1 to 3 percent of the body's mass (in a 200-pound adult, that’s 2 to 6 pounds of bacteria), but play a vital role in human health.
R5rY8 TIL there's a Woodhenge 2 miles north-east of Stonehenge
VBp08 TIL handling salmon in suspicious circumstances is technically illegal in the UK under the Salmon Act 1986
n5Kb TIL That 1/3 of Russian soldiers in World War One were not issued rifles, and were told to pick up a weapon when one of their comrades were killed.
BbjW TIL that in 2008, a stage actor slit his own throat onstage after his prop knife, for his suicide scene, was replaced with a real one.