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TIL about “The Hum”- a global constant sound that’s making some people mad. Can you hear it?

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BrwJD TIL Siamese cats have their coloration due to the enzyme tyrosinase being mutated to be ineffective at body temperature but active in the tails feet ears and face where it’s cooler and can produce the dark pigment.
gMPkL TIL the Star Wars cantina players perform a genre of music called Jizz, making them jizz-wielders. Some jizz-wielders play an instrument known as a jizz box.
ANaNx TIL Now That's Beautiful Like Earth, Saturn gets auroras at its poles. They're invisible to the unaided human eye, but the Cassini spacecraft and the Hubble Space Telescope captured footage of them using infrared and ultraviolet imaging tech.
X0gm6 TIL almost all vertebrates yawn. Mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and even fish all share this trait.
VMm1D TIL about Gloria Ramirez “The Toxic Lady” who in 1994 had a strange effect on the hospital staff...