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TIL Giraffes make sound but it is too low for humans to hear

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1amkO TIL that, in one apocryphal story of Voltaire's death at age 83, a Catholic priest counseled him to renounce Satan. He replied, "This is no time to make new enemies."
6Eowm Today I Learned that there's an event in Hawaii called Lahaina Noon, where the sun passes directly overhead.
b6P8a TIL that in 1974, Marina Abramović performed "Rhythm 0," where she stood motionless for six hours while the audience was invited to use any of 72 objects on her, including a rose, scissors, a loaded gun, and a knife, with some audience members cutting her skin and removing her clothes.
R54BQ TIL serial killer David Berkowitz, better known as the Son of Sam, wrote a letter in response to the 2002 D.C. sniper attacks in which he told the shooters to "stop hurting innocent people".
gdGD TIL the Pitcairn Islands, the least populous national jurisdiction in the world, is inhabited only by the descendents of the mutineers from the HMS Bounty