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TIL The movie “Straight Out of Compton” wasn’t played in Compton because it has no movie theaters

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pYYB8 TIL earthworms are unable to drown like a human would, and they can even survive several days fully submerged in water. They breathe through their skin and can handle water as easily as air.
oKmE TIL that the “cost per GFLOPS” (the cost for a computer that would operate at one billion floating-point operations per second) in 1997 was of USD $42,000, while nowadays it is of merely $0.12.
LQAkV TIL that the inventor of the motorcycle died while riding his own motorcycle design at the age of 72. A newspaper headline said that Sylvester Roper "Died in the Saddle".
KO4rR TIL Kuru is found among people from New Guinea who practiced a form of cannibalism in which they ate the brains of dead people as part of a funeral ritual. This practice stopped in 1960, but cases of kuru were reported for many years afterward because the disease has a long incubation period
xoeD TIL that the phrase ‘cellar door’ was determined by experts to be the most euphonious phrase, or pleasant sounding, in all of English.