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TIL only 31% of college graduates know that nitrogen makes up most of the Earth’s atmosphere.

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VBmaZ TIL "Dukes of Hazzard" were destroying '68-'70 Dodge Chargers at such a rate that planes had to be used for aerial search for replacement cars among the populace.
kQ1g TIL The piano used for recording “Bohemian Rhapsody ” was the same one used when recording “Hey Jude”
gMJaX TIL people with two eyes see different images in each eye looking at lenticular images. I only have one working eye so I always thought it was a way to show movement but they show depth as well!
kvb1 TIL Richard Nixon once asked a man at Ghana’s Independence Day celebration “How does it feel to be free? The man answered: "How should I know?” “I come from Alabama.”
b6oW4 TIL that In 1518, the dancing plague in the Holy Roman city of Strasbourg saw some 400 people dance uncontrollably for weeks on end — leaving as many as 100 of them dead.