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TIL a study conducted by a linguist and a sound engineer concluded the perfect male voice would be a combination of Alan Rickman and Jeremy Irons

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d8b4K TIL lizards in areas hit by hurricanes have evolved grippier, bigger toe pads in order to hang on against high winds, even within one generation. Researchers studied 188 anole lizard species in 70 years of hurricane data. In areas spared by hurricanes, lizard toe pads were smaller.
Egob7 TIL that McVitie's Digestive got its name from the high amount of sodium bicarbonate in it. The inventor theorized that eating the biscuits after a large meal would be beneficial to one's health. Now, they print a disclaimer on them that says, “The biscuit's ingredients lack digestive aids”
Y75x TIL In 2008 MTV was fined £255,000 for airing the full uncensored version of “Windowlicker” by Aphex Twin.
16o5W TIL that the defunct semi-pro Canadian Women's Hockey League had two teams in Shenzhen, China for 2 seasons, forcing the Canadian teams to fly 7000 miles there for road games once a season
O58a TIL Winston Churchill covered up the “Katyn Massacre” of 20,000 poles by the soviets to pursue the alliance, assuring them that “We shall certainly oppose vigorously any ‘investigation’ by the International Red Cross… Such investigation would be a fraud and its conclusions reached by terrorism”.