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TIL Beyoncé is named after her mama's maiden name, which is also Beyoncé

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b6n0Q TIL that the farm that had been in James Camerons family for 170 years and that he grew up spending summers on, is proposed to become the same type of Mega Quarry as seen in Avatar.
mNWM TIL On October 23, 1999, BASE jumper and stuntwoman Jan Davis made a protest jump off El Capitan to lift Yosemite’s BASE jumping ban. She died in the process. The ban remains intact.
jNAjj TIL Your voice sounds different from what you hear. This is because one can hear a sound in two different ways. The first is through vibrating sound waves hitting your ear drum, the way other people hear your voice. The second way is through vibrations inside your skull, set off by your vocal chords
a8veA TIL of cascatelli, a new pasta shape invented in 2021 by podcaster Dan Pashman for maximum "sauceability", "forkability" and "toothsinkability"
byja TIL when the face of Italian fashion model Fabio, which has graced the cover of hundreds of romance novels, got struck by a goose on a roller coaster, he refused to sue, saying that he was not interested in profiting from the accident, but only wanted the park to install proper safety measures.