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TIL that a 2012 study concluded that pop music has grown louder and increasingly musically homogeneous since the mid-1960s

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Wkm4X TIL In Japanese tradition, rabbits live on the Moon where they make mochi, the popular snack of mashed sticky rice. This comes from interpreting the pattern of dark patches on the moon as a rabbit standing on tiptoes on the left pounding on an usu, a Japanese mortar.
905B TIL Dwight D. Eisenhower graduated West Point in the middle of the class of 1915, which became known as “the class the stars fell on” because 59 members eventually became general officers.
gMjQW TIL Deadly heat is killing Americans: climate death toll rises after a decade of federal inaction | US news
11yW TIL Astronauts often lose their fingernails after conducting spacewalks
9YE7G TIL There is a secure seed bank on a remote arctic island of Norway. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault's mission is to provide a safety net against accidental loss of different plant species in case of a global catasthrophe. It has a capacity of 4.5 million seed samples!