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TIL Humans can hear the difference between hot and cold water being poured.

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BrYMK TIL about a environmentalist who took a vow of silence for 17 years. He first started by taking a vow to never use motor vehicles after the 1971 San Francisco oil spill. He even went through school and even got a PHD while being silent. He only broke it when he played his banjo and thanked the crowd
vOvj TIL the actor who played character Random Task in Austin Powers (the parody of Odd Job from 007 films) is serving a life sentence for torture and rape.
BrkdL TIL in 1965, the Pope and the Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople lifted a reciprocal excommunication that had been in place since 1054
woQVP TIL That a British experiment in 2007 made lab mice see red (trichromatic vision)
loD4N TIL that Pete Townshend, lead guitarist for The Who, destroyed 37 guitars in 1967 alone.