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TIL the male vocals in Evanescence's "Bring Me To Life" were added because radio stations thought the song was "too feminine."

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x619w TIL statistically 1/22 people who own a Dodge RAM have a DUI and they are the most common vehicle involved in a DUI accident.
R55e7 TIL one of the early directors of the Veterans Bureau stole over $2 million dollars from it, under President Warren G. Harding. Harding had to be physically stopped from strangling Forbes when the corruption came to light.
69ML8 TIL about the Luhn algorithm or Luhn formula, also known as the "modulus 10" or "mod 10" algorithm, named after its creator, IBM scientist Hans Peter Luhn - a simple check digit formula used to validate a variety of identification numbers including credit card numbers.
pp48 TIL of the high pitched voice theory of the Neanderthal, that because of the shape of their vocal chords, size of their head and rib cage, it’s likely Neanderthals would have had a very loud, high pitches voices.
yQQLv TIL about the Pitch Drop Experiment. A lump of pitch was placed in a funnel in 1927. Only nine drops have fallen in 90 years.