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TIL Drinking watermelon juice before a workout helps reduce muscle soreness.

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d8rjd TIL that the clicking noise sperm whales use to communicate is so loud that it can be heard by other whales thousands of miles away and can make a human body intensely vibrate to the point of death.
5VyAp TIL of Mrs Mills' Piano - a 1905 Steinway upright piano at Abbey Road Studios. Its "characteristic out-of-tune honky tonk sound" has been featured on countless albums. Paul McCartney tried to buy it, but was refused.
GA50g TIL Google’s 2004 IPO used a Dutch auction, where investors bid the highest price they’re willing to pay, and everyone gets shares at the lowest price that clears all available stock (the market-clearing price).
WkjB9 TIL There was a battle that supposedly took place in 585 BC which was interrupted by a solar eclipse. The battle ended in a draw and peace was negotiated ending a 6 year war.
R7Kp6 TIL Jane Jetson from The Jetsons was only 18 when she had Judy