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TIL: A researcher set up speakers playing the sound of rushing water in a calm pond and beavers repeatedly covered the speakers until they couldn’t hear the sound anymore.

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5YQAB TIL dinosaurs in the stegosaurus suborder have a cluster of spikes on their tails informally referred to by paleontologists as "Thagomizer", stemming from a 1982 joke in Gary Larson's The Far Side
8aVDL TIL that although Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture was written to include cannons firing and cathedral bells, synchronising them with an orchestra proved all but impossible. It wasn't until 1954 that composer Antal Doráti mixed a studio recording with cannons and bells, finally playing it as intended.
0wblp TIL K-Pop Has Become a Battleground for Political Ideologies
rnee TIL that there is evidence that the British Admiralty deliberately send the luxury liner Lusitania into waters patrolled by German U-boats in the hope that the ship would be attacked and sunk with Americans on board, thus drawing the US into WWI. 1,198 people drowned, inc. many women and children
VBN5D TIL, we were sending men into space, and nearly sent man to the moon, before we discovered what plate tectonics were. We didn’t know how mountains or earthquakes happened until 1966