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TIL in the movie Notting Hill, Hugh Grant’s character lives “in the house with the blue door”, a real place in London’s Notting Hill District. The 280 Westbourne Park Road house is still a common stop for fans to take photos. Some even reenacting Spike’s famous scene in his underwear.

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9nEQ TIL that a convent of nuns in the Middle Ages began to meow like cats and others followed until all would meow together at a certain time for several hours together. This continued until the surrounding village called soldiers to force the nuns to stop their meowing.
mxX9E TIL Compared with hunter-gatherers, industrialized peoples’ intestines have fewer kinds of microbes—and are missing at least one major group of ancient bacteria. Yet even with all of these extra microbes, hunter-gatherers have fewer gut ailments, such as Crohn’s disease, colitis, and colon cancer.
GYd8G TIL that between 1978 and 1983, John Williams won six Grammy Awards for Best Score in a row. He won them for Star Wars, Close Encounters, Superman, Empire, Raiders, and E.T.
N7rwN TIL elephant shrews were called that because they are shrews with flexible noses like an elephant, but genetic analysis discovered they are not true shrews and are actually more closely related to elephants
AN5gl TIL the decibel scale is logarithmic, similar to the Richter scale used to measure earthquakes. This means a100 decibel sound is 10 billion times louder than a 10 decibel sound.