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TIL that frisson, or getting “the chills” from listening to powerful pieces of music, is connected to how people experience emotions.

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1XoX TIL in 2007, a Bowhead whale was discovered with the end of a harpoon left embedded in its neck from a previous hunt. It was found that the harpoon tip was originally manufactured in 1890, indicating the whale had survived a human attack more than a century ago.
JY4E4 TIL that CJ Products, the producers of Pillow Pets, once hired private detectives to track down a warehouse where U.S. marshals seized 17,000 counterfeit pillows.
ANrg4 TIL the Mu Us desert in China was completely wiped out by reforestation efforts
XEemE TIL that Trent Reznor felt his song "A Warm Place" was too good to be his own work. After the song had been released, he was horrified to discover that he had indeed copied the melody from a piece by David Bowie called "Crystal Japan", written for a Japanese gin advert. Bowie found this hilarious.
BrVbL TIL that the girl in the 'distracted boyfriend' meme is a model and has made a career out of looking shocked for stock photos.