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TIL Dolly Parton sleeps in make-up (and washes it off in the morning) just in case she has to go out in the middle of the night if a natural disaster strikes

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0dQ8p TIL the northern lights make whistling, cracking, and hissing sounds
j6EPv TIL Jenna Haze cohosts a movie reviewing show/podcast that posts monthly 2-3 hour long episodes
kOxE4 TIL in 1953 four editors from the Harvard Crimson newspaper stole a birdsh*t covered ibis statue from their rival- the Harvard Lampoon. The editors talked their way into a meeting with the Soviet Ambassador, and gifted the ibis to the USSR as ‘symbol of the universality of the search for truth'
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