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TIL of Misophonia, a disorder which means sufferers have a hatred of sounds such as eating, chewing, loud breathing or even repeated pen-clicking.

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1aOO8 TIL despite being 8 times smaller, Spotify pays music artists twice as much as YouTube does. The music industry makes more money selling vinyl records than from YouTube.
Ryn9 TIL that during prohibition, grape farmers would make semi-solid grape concentrates called wine bricks, which were then sold with the warning “After dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, do not place the liquid in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty days, because then it would turn into wine”
69GWZ TIL the Triforium, a six-story sculpture near Little Tokyo in Los Angeles, was supposed to track the motions and conversations of people near it and convert them into patterns of light, and also point giant lasers toward the sky spelling out "Los Angeles." But its artist designer ran out of money
vPM8B TIL A random variable can have undefined expectation and variance if it follows a Cauchy distribution
OGgvg TIL Toll roads are an ancient concept and are referenced by Pliny and Aristotle.