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TIL that ~10% of the population has a congenital spine abnormality.

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Yo8d TIL the lowest sound ever recorded is 57 octaves below middle-C and is from a black hole in the Perseus Cluster.
Z8rEo TIL there is also an almost complete (85%) T-Rex skeleton in Taiwan, owned by a private collector on display at his museum
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