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TIL Hans Zimmer wanted to use a pipe organ while making the Interstellar soundtrack because it only makes a note with air, making you feel human presence in every sound. Which was very important to keeping the film about not just the space that they were looking at but the people within that space.

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W79yN TIL male kangaroos have two penises that sit below the balls, females have 3 vaginas, and in the process of trying to find out why/ how this works, I learned echidnas have 4 penises but only 2 can get hard at once (wtf even is nature!?)
b9WNj TIL in 2012 the town of Dull (Scotland) was paired as a twin-town with Boring (Oregon, USA). Later, in 2013, they were joined by Bland (Australia) and the three now form the "Trinity of Tedium", officially the "League of Extraordinary Communities".
OGXML TIL that Spirytus Rektyfikowany, a Polish rectified spirit with 96% alcohol by volume, is one of the strongest commercially available alcoholic drinks in the world. It’s so potent it’s banned in several countries.
5VG1r TIL that Australia, despite being home to the most venomous spiders, snakes, and marine animals in the world, has one of the highest life expectancies globally.
oRkDr TIL the last line of Franz Kafka's "The Judgement" has a sexual double meaning in its original German. Kafka later confessed that when he wrote that final line he was thinking of "a violent ejaculation" instead of "an unending stream of traffic", a play on the German word "Verkehr".