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TIL we hate the recorded sound of our voice because our skull changes its resonance from within and creates more bass.

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epgPE TIL the 1992 show "Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos" so offended the owner of the network that he called the studio and cancelled it minutes into the first episode
EZ77 TIL that MDMA causes “acute harm to person” in approximately 1 in 10,000 episodes of use compared to about 1 in 350 episodes from horse riding.
7rVpb TIL the survivors of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash mutually agreed that if they died, the others could use their bodies for sustenance. At the beginning they only managed to eat skin and muscles, but in the end they also ate hearts and brains.
nAm9 Today I learned that in 2013 we dropped thousands of parachuting dead mice packed with painkillers onto snakes in Guam.
ADRYn TIL the last major US presidential candidate to wear a beard was Charles Evans Hughes, who was defeated in the 1916 presidential election.