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TIL: James Carter received a $20,000 royalty check for a song in "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" that he had sung 40 years earlier but didn't remember.

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l7aWV TIL there’s a condition called “autophony” where your own voice sounds like it’s screaming inside your head due to a defect in your inner ear.
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wLY48 TIL The oldest-known message in a bottle was tossed overboard from a German ship in 1886 and found off the coast of Wedge Island, Australia earlier this year.
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LQyPV TIL the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018 made Congressional Research Service reports publicly available on the internet for the first time.