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TIL there are Wile E. Coyote/Roadrunner rules, such as "No outside force can harm the Coyote", "The Road Runner must stay on the road", and "No dialog ever, except beep-beep"

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BrVjD TIL that George Lucas pitched the idea of Indiana Jones to Steven Spielberg while they were building a giant sandcastle together while on vacation in Hawaii.
4XpJo TIL that the single oldest complete piece of music is actually from 1400BC. It's known as "Hurrian Hymn No. 6" and an example one can listen to is heavily contested over because it is one of about five "rival decipherments of the notation, each yielding entirely different results".
N7kkJ Til of afro turks, people of Zanj (Bantu) descent in Turkey, the current pop is now mixed with the rest of the population.
Wkyk9 TIL that there's a new state of matter called "Time Crystals" that is different from solids, liquids, gasses, and plasma.