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TIL that Lady Gaga is the only female artist to achieve four singles each selling at least 10 million copies globally.

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JN9k TIL that watching live dance performances causes your body to respond as if you’re dancing too. A study showed that people watching dancers had specific motor responses to the movement. So if you see someone do an amazing pirouette, your body is secretly trying to do one too.
v1BK7 TIL in 1970, 3 men broke into the zoo in Portland. 1 was mauled to death by lions while showing off by lowering himself into the lions den. The next night, one of the surviving 2, broke in again & shot the lions to death
9YVWM TIL that the tongue map that I learned about in school (and some schools still teach today) is a myth. Your entire tongue can taste all flavors, and your soft palate as well as your throat also have taste buds.
OoYgR TIL Marcel Marceau first used mime was during WWII to keep Jewish children quiet while he helped them escape from occupied France to neutral Switzerland
74Pr TIL that under US law, companies can refuse to take cash when they charge you before providing the product, but after you get it there’s a debt, and they have to let you pay cash