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TIL people who listen to country music are more likely to get depression.

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laGV TIL in 1925 two young brothers found the Stanley Cup in their basement and scratched their names on it. In 1940 their names were engraved on it as members of the champion New York Rangers. They then peed in the cup with their teammates.
pN74 TIL the original ‘Mind the Gap’ recording used on the London Underground was restored at Embankment station last year because the actor’s widow was comforted to hear her husband’s voice again.
6EyE7 TIL one 1990 episode of Quantum Leap managed to predict some of the events of the 1996 Super Bowl. Not only did the screenwriter correctly predict that the Pittsburgh Steelers would be playing, the Steelers also ended up trailing by 3 at some points of the game, just like in the show.
x6Xmo TIL that after constantly eat raw beef over a couple of years, a man in China eventually had a 20 foot long tapeworm living in his small intestine, and it turned out that the tapeworm had been inside his small intestines for at least 2 years.
XEEjr TIL the main singer/songwriter from Eels is the son of the physicist who originated the "Many Worlds" interpretation of quantum theory