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TIL Metal music is called metal because it’s harder than rock

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N7KM TIL Lyndon B. Johnson once urinated on a secret serviceman who was shielding him from public view just because he was the president and he could.
78GBb TIL Jagadish Chandra Bose found that plants were visibly reactive to all manner of stimuli: flashes of light, changes in temperature, plucking, pricking, screaming. Plants became numbed by drugs and drunk from alcohol.
P19dg TIL the name Dennis is derived from Dionysus, the Greek god of ecstatic states, particularly those produced by wine.
nWa0d TIL That, as of 2016, the video of the on air suicide of Christine Chubbuck still existed and was in the possession of the widow of the late TV station owner Chubbuck had worked at. The video has not been seen since 1974.
69eRZ TIL that between 1895 and 1908 the population of the Belgian Congo declined by between 2 and 13 million due to colonial brutality and diseases caused by colonialism.