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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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DQXYV TIL of Bird Island, a man-made platform off the coast of Namibia that serves as an avian breeding ground for the globally-isolated Cape Cormorant; as well as a renewable source of Guano (bird shit), which is used in fertilizer for it’s high nitrogen content.
xgpD TIL that the idiom “You kids get off my lawn” was ascribed to elderly first-generation homeowners who prided their lawns as a symbol of new-found affluence post WWII
wMdJ TIL that in 2012, someone put a 6 foot tall fork sculpture in a fork-in-the-road. When it was taken down, citizens put a sign up that stated “Why the fork not?” and continued to try to place various forks in the area.
VBV0Z TIL the common plastic garden chair is called a "Monobloc" chair, and was once banned in Switzerland for polluting the cityscape.
78o47 TIL that in Austria, Americans can go to any McDonald's to get in touch with the U.S. embassy if they need help. This was established under a new partnership between McDonald's locations in Austria and the U.S. Embassy in Vienna