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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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wmj6 TIL lego used to give away a 14 karat gold lego brick to long serving employees in the 80s
xkL0 TIL the leading cause of a death for a white capuchin monkey in the wild is being murdered by another white capuchin monkey.
RyKl TIL that the traditional way to pronounce Julius Caesar, is (yewl-yoos kay-i-sarr), showing where the imperial titles of Russian ‘Czar/Tsar’ or 'Kaiser’, in German, had their origins in Classical Latin and more than 2000 years as a legacy to Caesar’s family name.
nW5BY TIL before Saladin died in 1193, he had given away all his wealth to his poor subjects. His estate consisted of 1 piece of gold and 40 pieces of silver, not enough to pay for his funeral.
WkDmL TIL that Lehman Brother before going bankrupt paid its CEO nearly half a billion dollars in total compensation from 1993 to 2007, and fired him in 2008 only after declaring bankruptcy.