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TIL in 2017 it was demonstrated that pop songs are getting dumber and more repetitive by running the lyrics through a data compression algorithm

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OVwX TIL there are 15 surviving autographs from William Shakespeare. None are spelled the same and none are spelled the way we do today.
OG8mX TIL that the Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest building in the world for over 3800 years of the ~4600 years since its construction. It was not until 1311 that the spire of an English cathedral was built higher.
1a6l8 TIL: Ampulex wasps paralyze cockroaches before clipping their antennae and drinking their blood directly from their heads. Afterward, they drag the roach to a burrow where wasp larva feed on the subdued living cockroach.
Q57e TIL that all even numbers (except 2) can be expressed as the sum of 2 prime numbers, a rule known as Goldbach’s Conjecture
6ERrW TIL Scientists managed to capture an image of a newborn planet that was still forming in the disk of gas and dust around its star.