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TIL Infrasound waves (with frequencies below 20Hz) lead to distorted vision and the possibility of “ghost” sightings. It can also cause headaches, nausea, night terrors and sleep disorders

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rRPpW TIL that painter Andrew Wyeth is buried at the Olson property in Maine next to Christina Olson, the woman he immortalised through his painting Christina's World.
OG8aa TIL: Classic comedy movie "Airplane!" was based on "Zero Hour!" which was based on a teleplay called "Flight Into Danger" which starred James Doohan -- Original Star Trek's Scotty --- as the disgraced war pilot who saves the plane.
8ea4a TIL the 1972 pornographic film Deep Throat reportedly earned as much as $600M, which may have been inflated by gangsters in money laundering schemes
R7lQl TIL in 1909, the citizens of Ulysses, Kansas, moved their whole city (including buildings) to evade exorbitant property taxes.
wL86P TIL: NYC Central Park cost more than Alaska. New York State legislature paid about $7.4 million dollars for 843 acres starting 1853. A few years later in 1867, the US bought the 600,000 square miles of Alaska for $7.2 million