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TIL that tapping your legs to the beat of music involuntarily is a natural thing and it's because of a phenomenon called entrainment

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8eQrb TIL The flashing pattern of a lighthouse light is called a characteristic. Sailors know what lighthouse it is by referring to all the patterns on a chart called a "light list."
Zpl7B TIL that DC refused to let the TV show "Harley Quinn" air a scene of Batman giving oral to Catwoman because they said "Heroes don't do that"
D118e TIL that hidden at the bottom of every box of Kleenex is a layer of strange peach tissues...and once you get to the peach tissues, it means you have 20 left until the box is all out.
gO9y TIL in japanese folklore it was believed that sometimes when an object reached it’s 100th birthday it would become alive and self-aware
9YjmQ TIL that people of the Yanomami tribe do not generally address eachother by their names. It is considered an insult to call a man by his name by his public - in fact, the Yanomami verb "to name" is a synonym of "to insult".