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TIL that only between 45 and 85% of people experience goosebumps or chills in response to emotionally moving music, etc.

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xVejo TIL In Weird Al's White & Nerdy music video Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key are the two "gangsters" who are scared away by Yankovic's nerdiness in the beginning of the video.
9roM TIL that the bible verse Jules recites in Pulp Fiction is in fact not an actual verse
kJk05 TIL that the most successful pirate in history was a woman from China named Ching Shih. She commanded the largest fleet that nations couldn’t copy in numbers. She was a former prostitute who married a pirate that immediately considered her his equal & held massive control of the South China Sea.
VONG TIL that after the highest-ranking defector from the Eastern Bloc, a 3-star general in the secret police of Romania, arrived in US, a bounty of 2 mil was placed on him. Yasser Arafat and Muammar al-Gaddafi set a 1 mil reward each. Additionally, Carlos the Jackal was hired. Gen. Pacepa still lives.
LQXap TIL the Saturn V rocket, which first took humans to the Moon, weighed just under three million kilogrammes before launch, or roughly the weight of 400 elephants. More than 90% of this weight was fuel alone, leaving a payload of just 43,000 kilogrammes to reach the Moon's orbit.