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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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rRbZ4 TIL that for two thousand years the pyramids were the worlds tallest structures. Until Lincoln Cathederal
RXD1 TIL that states such as Alabama and South Carolina still had laws preventing interracial marriage until 2000, where they were changed with 40% of each state opposing the change
9d7r TIL 4 people died and 43 were captured because someone didn’t know how to operate a submarine toilet
gra4X TIL the first mayor of African descent of a Western world capital was Severiano de Hereida, a Cuban-born naturalised French citizen who advocated for the separation of church and state and was an early ecologist. He's also notable as the father of the influential neurophycisist Marcelle de Hereida.
b6B6Z TIL that, despite being taught to learn from failure/mistakes, humans tend to block the memories of failure and make the same mistakes again.