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TIL that a man has replicated what the Rebel Yell in the American Civil War sounded like

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Me1GB TIL that growing up, Samuel L Jackson has a bad stutter, which got him into acting so he could ‘pretend to be someone who doesn’t stutter’ and he also at this time started to use ‘motherfucker’ as an affirmation word to help keep from stuttering.
KmXQ TIL David Bowie had an affair with the mother of Guns N’ Roses guitarist, Slash.
Yp87d TIL fewer than 1 in 10 Americans meet the minimum daily fruit recommendation.
NJxQ TIL: At 12 yrs old, Steve Jobs (Founder, Apple) looked up Bill Hewlett (Founder, HP) in the phonebook & called him up because he wanted to build a frequency counter, but didn’t have the parts. 20 minutes later, Hewlett gave Jobs the parts & also a summer job at HP, assembling frequency counters.
VBV78 TIL That a binary star system passed through the outer boundary of the solar system ~70,000 years ago, which would've been visible to humans living in the northern hemisphere at the time.