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TIL The Sun emits sound waves, similar to a bell

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Zp4ea TIL that when Nicolas Cage proposed to Patricia Arquette, she told him to get odd objects to prove his affection. They were J.D. Salinger's autograph, a Bob's Big Boy statue, a black orchid, and a Hill Tribe wedding outfit. Despite the list being intended to be impossible, he found them.
8el64 TIL that guinea pig owners in Switzerland are required by law to own at least two guinea pigs.
9YO7M TIL the education minister of Kazakhstan deemed SpongeBob SquarePants too violent for children, labeling the titular character a "self-absorbed hooligan" who "regularly inflicts violence on others in his community and seems to enjoy what he does."
rRak4 TIL from the 1920's to the 1950's cigarette companies routinely paid doctors to endorse and prescribe their brand of cigarettes to patients, falsely claiming them as a "healthy" alternative to other brands. This was done to cover up increasing evidence of the harm done by smoking.
vRBK TIL There is a breed of sheep which lives on a beach and eats seaweed.