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TIL that dinosaurs did not “roar,” but cooed like birds
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TIL that The Beatles stopped touring partly because their speakers could no longer compete with their fans’ screams.
0wMr5
TIL: Wee Man (famous stuntman & pro skater) was born in an army camp in Italy, but then when his father got transferred, Wee Man ended up spending a good part of his childhood in Germany, & speaking fluent German to this day
grDMX
TIL that after the 1855 death of the great mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, his brain was preserved for study and became the subject of numerous papers. It was only discovered in 1998 that the his label had gotten swapped with that of the brain of pathologist Conrad Fuchs who died the same year.
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TIL that during the prohibition in the 1920s, the United States government poisoned the alcohol in an attempt curtail enthusiasm for the drink, resulting in an estimated 10000 deaths. The move had little effect, and prohibition failed, ending in 1933.
xNW5
TIL that, despite having sold 40 million records worldwide, Rick Astley abruptly retired from music in 1993, at the age of 27, in order to spend more time with his newborn daughter. He wouldn’t produce any new material for the next 10 years, and it was another 14 before he went back on tour.