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TIL The Northern lights make an audible sound in the atmosphere

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VQKp TIL Iceland banned strip clubs in 2010 because it “recognizes women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.”
D1MlJ TIL In 1989, Will Smith did ‘Fresh Prince’ because he was in Trouble with the IRS, $2.8 Million in Taxes after his 2nd Album Flopped
LgEm TIL that in the 1950s a scientist at Tulane University discovered the “pleasure centers” of the brain by zapping it with electricity and gave a woman a 30-minute orgasm.
K4V4 TIL that before releasing Nine Inch Nails’ debut album Pretty Hate Machine, Trent Reznor took a job as a janitor at a recording studio. Using the recording equipment during his breaks, he near-singlehandedly wrote, played, and edited a demo, and was signed to a record label soon after.
Ood57 TIL that Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburg, a relative of the slaughtered Romanov family, gave a blood sample to help genetically ID their remains when they were discovered and exhumed.