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TIL Science Proves: Pop Music Has Actually Gotten Worse

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xo5b TIL In 1883, a writer attempted to make a Portuguese-to-English phrasebook - despite not knowing English himself. Popularized in America by Mark Twain, “English As She Is Spoke” is filled with such nonsensical English idioms as “to craunch the marmoset” and “to buy cat in pocket.”
gr8rD TIL that we don't REALLY know who invented coffee, though we know its origins in and around the Arabian peninsula in the 15th century
6lyX TIL Although considered by many to be taboo when cousins get married, the risk of them having offspring with genetic defects is not significantly higher than two random strangers having kids.
7AXp TIL that there is a company that provides private flights for individuals who want to join the mile high club. For $425.00 you get a 1 hour flight, chocolate, champagne, a curtain and 1 VERY DISCREET PILOT
Bg6Qk TIL in 1980, Kevin Peter Hall starred in the movie Without Warning, where he plays an alien that comes to Earth to hunt humans for sport. Seven years later, Hall would also play the Predator.