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TIL that a small portion of the population can voluntarily control their tensor tympani muscle, causing a low rumble in the ear.

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N7mAN TIL that there was going to be a prequel to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs called "The Seven Dwarves", in which it would be revealed that Dopey lost his voice due to trauma upon witnessing her mother's death. It was cancelled after John Lasseter was put in charge of Walt Disney Animation.
M7DaV TIL Baader–Meinhof phenomenon is when you learn/talk about something and then see it everywhere. Or is it just our iPhones listening to us?!
6nw7 TIL that wild pigs throughout the Americas descend from pigs brought over on ships by the first Spanish explorers.
epOPn TIL that the world’s quietest room is so silent that you can hear your own blood flowing and bones moving. The Anechoic Chamber at Orfield Labs in Minnesota holds the Guinness World Record for being the quietest place on earth with a background noise reading of -9.4 decibels.
xVMeb TIL that lemurs, flying foxes and narrow-striped mongooses got to the Madagascar by rafting there, according to scientists.