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TIL around 1 in every 10,000 people have 'Perfect Pitch', an ability to tell notes and chords similar to being able to know every ingredient just by tasting a meal. If you don't develop it before the age of 6, you'll never have it, but if you do, you can never lose it

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N7mM1 TIL the Voyager I and II space probes, which are currently racing through interstellar space, each include a golden record with 115 analog-encoded photographs, greetings in 55 languages, a 12-minute montage of sounds on Earth and 90 minutes of music (including Chuck Berry's 'Johnny B. Good')
XEAw6 TIL that a Radio DJ played Wham's ‘Last Christmas’ 24 times in a row, after barricading himself in the studio
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7rAnZ TIL In 1968, King Friday from Mr. Rogers Neighborhood wanted to build a wall to keep change out.
8WaX TIL There’s a plan to rebuild the colossus of Rhodes