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TIL that your voice can change during different phases of the menstrual cycle due to the link between hormone levels and vocal cord functions.

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jyjp TIL that mammalian evolution has been fundamentally driven by viruses
dDnX8 TIL the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, has a dedicated team of people called the "String Similarity Panel" to check if applications for new "generic top-level domains" (gTLDs, e.g.: .com, .org, .net) are similar to existing top-level domains (TLDs).
Oo9N6 TIL the last song on the US version of Ok Go's sophomore album is a track titled "9027 km" which consists of a 35-minute recording of frontman Damian Kulash's sleeping girlfriend. It was put on the album to pad out the cd and prevent the label from adding extra DRM software.
E1Q00 TIL when you cool helium to about 2 Kelvin it has literally zero viscosity and so can flow through solid ceramics and up walls.
9VGG TIL Martin Luther King Jr’s mother was assassinated by a gunman while she was playing the organ in church.