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TIL only some people can physical chills from listening to music, and those people generally have the personality trait of being ‘open to experience’

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Nlmb TIL The loudest sound on Earth is a volcanic eruption and it can kill you on the spot.
bNa9 TIL that last surviving witness to the Abraham Lincoln assassination lived long enough to be interviewed about it on television.
eP1n TIL that a popular 70s Japanese kids show called Rascal the Raccoon led to a raccoon adoption craze in Japan. Eventually, raccoons invaded the wild, where they continue to this day to wreak havoc on infrastructure and the environment as they have no natural predators.
kjK5 TIL a 46 year old ex-NFL player suffered a head injury that caused him to lose ALL previous memories, even knowledge of concepts such as children, love, spouses, birthdays, etc.
y1Qw TIL that a 59-year-old man entered a hospital complaining of chest pains, and was found to have a three-chambered reptilian heart, as opposed to a four-chambered mammalian one.