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TIL about Superior Canal Dehiscence Syndrome which can cause, among other symptoms, patients to be able to hear their own eyes move.

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R786Q TIL that Dolly Parton's father paid for her birth with a sack of oats! She is the fourth of 12 children born to Robert and Avie Lee Parton of Sevierville, Tennessee. Her family was so poor that grain was all her father had to give the doctor who delivered her!
gBxA TIL the “Law & Order” sound is “technically a piece of music”, so composer Mike Post gets a royalty every time it is played. Post calls the sound “ching ching” because he’s “making money off of it.”
ABQw TIL Scientists once had a favorite curb in Hayward, CA. They studied the curb because it lay on the Hayward fault line & was being pulled apart each year. This evidence of Earth’s shifting plates was observed from the 1970s till 2016 when the city decided to fix the sidewalk & unknowingly ruined it
pYKKA TIL that despite much of the economic damage done to the US by the Great Depression being caused by bank failures, no bank runs occurred in Canada during this time because of their banking regulations.
gJ79 TIL Muhammad Suharto the former President of Indonesia is considered the worlds most corrupt head of state due to embezzling between $15-35 billion during his 32-year presidency