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TIL about the "Singing Sand Dunes" phenomenon, where certain desert dunes emit a low-pitched hum due to sand grain vibrations under specific conditions

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0a1 TIL there was a DC villain called “Snowflame” who gained super powers by doing lots of cocaine.
7r5xO TIL about a Mexican plane that made an emergency landing on a race course in Mallow, Ireland, in 1983. In order for the plane to successfully take off again, a runway had to be specially built so the captain and crew spent 39 day in the town and became minor celebrities among the locals
mxLMp TIL that the state with the largest number of black townships after the Civil War was Oklahoma, with more than 50 townships in the state. Some are still in existence today.
jewE TIL in a study that examined the difference in brain activity of women during real and faked orgasms, researchers inadvertantly discovered that test subjects reached orgasm 80% of the time while wearing socks versus 50% without.
e0PKg TIL that when Eric Clapton fell in with George Harrison's then wife (who Clapton would also later go on to marry), he challenged Harrison to a guitar dual to decide who should be with her. Their guitar battle went on for 2 hours.