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TIL that film scores were not originally done for artistic reasons, but to drown out the sound of the projector

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7xwP TIL that the oldest living tree is 4,765 years old and lives in a secret location.
Lky7P TIL of Monica Bonilla, a girl who was kidnapped by her father in 1982. 8 years later, Unresolved Mysteries aired a segment on her and a viewer gave a tip that a girl they knew resembled her. They were mistaken. By chance, the tip still led police to Monica, and they rescued her from her father.
vPKkB TIL that bed bugs have no courtship rituals. What they have, instead, is a type of mating behavior called traumatic insemination. That is, a male will simply climb onto a female, stab her in the side of her body with his hypodermic penis, and release his sperm into her body cavity.
ADB7d TIL about the QWERTY Effect in which people attach more positive meanings to words and names that can be typed with the right hand
dgA8 TIL of exploding teeth, a medical condition that occurred in the 19th century and remains unexplained.