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TIL of the quietest room on earth. The Microsoft Audio Lab in Redmond, Washington can reach -20.6dB, a few dB more than the lowest point on earth at -23dB

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Men47 TIL that Duelling was a sport at the 1906 Olympics and 1908 Olympics.
1mAX TIL Fleetwood Mac almost thanked their coke dealer on the on the album credits of “Rumours”
X0nV8 TIL about Ina Benita, "the first Polish femme fatale", an interwar movie star that was believed dead after the Warsaw Uprising, but completely anonymously lived in the US until 1984. Her grandson only discovered this 30 years after her death. (translation from DE wiki due to depth)
WBW9 TIL that Melvil Dewey, creator of the Dewey Classification System, had “a persistent inability to control himself around women”. At Columbia “it was rumored that he asked for their bust sizes with their applications”; not true, but he did ask for photographs because “you cannot polish a pumpkin”.
eoAD TIL: Hibernating bears don’t eat or drink, and thus don’t poop or pee, but they develop a fecal plug in their intestines that can grow to 7 to 15 inches long and 1 to 2.5 inches in diameter. They defecate when they emerge from hibernation. “Fecal plugs have a light odor that is not unpleasant.”