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TIL that a group of 25 people could maintain their energy balance for 60 days - eating one mammoth, 16 days - eating a deer, but only half a day eating another human.

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ep0r5 TIL about the Shepard Tone. An audio illusion that creates the feeling of consistent, never-ending rising/falling. The illusion is achieved by playing overlapping notes that are one octave apart. In this way, the sensation of rising or descending notes never ends.
oBxLK TIL when It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown first aired, viewers responded to the famous "I got a rock" scene by sending Charles Schultz bags and boxes of candy from all over the world, "just for Charlie Brown".
OYw6 TIL Edgar Allan Poe’s “The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym” (1838) was about 4 shipwreck survivors stranded in a boat before they killed and ate a cabin boy–Richard Parker. In 1884, a boat was stranded with only 4 survivors. 3 of the men killed and ate the cabin boy, also named Richard Parker.
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woX97 TIL there's a type of bezoar (gastrointestinal stone) that develops from eating partially unripe persimmons and one of the cures for this is Coca-Cola, which is enough to completely dissolve the bezoar on its own in around half of the cases