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TIL that humans almost instinctively know the pentatonic scale

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weJY TIL that during the 1971 genocide in Bangladesh, the Pakistani Army would cut off the hair of women being held in Rape Camps to prevent them from committing suicide by using their hair to hang themselves
epJb TIL: Ryan Gossling took time off from acting to pursue his musical career with his band “Dead Man’s Bones”. The band makes creepy Halloween-type music, complete with children’s choir and all.
4XAda TIL the Mediterranean had dried up and been refilled by Atlantic for at least 69 times due to the total close up and re-open of the Strait of Gibraltar. at its prime time, the Atlantic-Gibraltar waterfall was 1000 times bigger than Niagara.
v1YrB TIL the 80+ year old rumor of stores giving away free Tootsie Pops, when customers brought in a wrapper with a shooting star, was never endorsed by Tootsie Roll Industries.
bo6a TIL that professor David Nutt (psychiatrist and neuropsychopharmacologist), and the U.K.’s Chief Advisor on Drugs Policy, was sacked in 2009 when all his research proved that ecstasy and weed were less dangerous than alcohool and tobacco.