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TIL the average American spends 33% of their waking hours listening to music

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YPDB TIL that pitch has a viscosity 230 billion times that of water. There is an experiment at U of Queensland; pitch was allowed to drip in 1930, and since that time only 8 drops have fallen. The last drop fell on 28/11/00, and the next drop is expected to fall this year.
XEo96 TIL: Many of the Space Shuttles parts were produced exclusively by small mom and pop shops. When the shuttle retirement was announced, a lifetime buy of parts was made — when the Shuttle retired, the mom and pop shops retired with it.
eBO4 TIL: Six thousand feral camels once attacked and completely shut down an Australian town in 2009.
ne9nb TIL there is a strong positive correlation between the number of films Nicolas Cage appeared in and the number people who drowned by falling into a swimming-pool between 1999 and 2009
Oo8OL Nero, Stalin and Bin Laden were all fans, but what makes verse so appealing to these leaders? Benjamin Ramm explores the connection between ruthlessness and sentimentality.