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TIL the budget for US military bands is 3x that of the NEA

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koO4 TIL that there is a feature length anime movie based on the music of Daft Punk. It contains no dialogue or sound effects and was called “the best animated movie made in 2003.”
R5gY6 TIL people with ALS or Lou Gehrig disease are disproportionately nice and pleasant, in addition to slowly losing all motor function, with makes doctors think it may also affect the frontal lobe.
4kaEg TIL that eels can travel over land for short distances by slithering through wet grass to reach new bodies of water.
8aloV TIL: Food Allergies are now 2-3 times higher compared to 1997. We have also seen diagnosed anaphylactic (life threatening) food reactions rise 377 percent from 2007 to 2016. As of 2011, one out of thirteen kids have a food allergy. To this day, scientists are still dumbfounded over this epidemic.
Y7DpG TIL Dolphins have two stomachs.