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TIL many people hear voices and music in white noise. This is known as auditory pareidolia or “musical ear syndrome.”

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VA80 TIL the terms “fed up” “haggard” and “wrapped around your little finger” along with many others, came from medieval falconry
DEOj TIL that in an experiment where a kitten was raised in the same cage as a rat, the cat not only refrained from attacking the rat, but the two became close companions, and the cat refused to chase or kill any other rats as well.
gMeaX TIL Ted Kaczynski, who is often referred to as the unabomber, has an I.Q. of 167 and attended Harvard before he went on to kill 3 people and injure 23 others by sending bombs via the postal service.
KOroG TIL that every member of The Beatles cited "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" as their favorite song off of The White Album
WQ4X TIL that from 1904 to 1925, a cartoon called “Dream of the Rarebit Fiend” ran in a New York paper. It featured bizarre nightmares, and among other things pioneered the idea of giant characters destroying a city. It has been called “perhaps the most bizarre newspaper feature in American history”.