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TIL Phil Collins recorded the soundtrack to Tarzan and Brother Bear in Five languages

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d5p7 TIL that the Incans, despite having a large empire, had no currency and no merchant class; citizens paid the government with labor and received necessities in return
D1ZRg TIL: A group of participants received a mug and were told they owned it; a second group was only shown the mug. When asked how much they would be willing to sell the mugs for, their asking price was more than twice of the second group. The “endowment effect“; we overvalue what we feel we own.
XgR6 TIL The day after Robin Williams’s suicide, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline fielded the greatest number of calls in its history.
pLZb TIL in 2010 an MI6 spy was found dead, his naked body inside a padlocked bag in his flat in London. The Metropolitan Police concluded that he had accidentally locked himself in the bag and died as a result.
nZ5Y TIL the world’s heaviest ball of twine weighs 21K pounds and was created by a man named JFK over the last 37 years. He says that in 1979 God told him to quit drinking and turn to twine.