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TIL Jeff Goldblum can play piano and has a prolific jazz career

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byNQ TIL the ‘Tetris Effect’, where a person devoting a large amount of time to a particular pattern-based activity will start unconsciously thinking and dreaming about it
0wPJR TIL that this is what animals that exist today would look like if drawn based on their bones - just like dinosaurs are
ne9bB TIL Opossums are only pregnant for 11-13 days and they can give birth to over 20 babies.
wLRJo TIL that in 1216 Prince Louis of France invaded England and was proclaimed King of England with the support of many English nobles. Eventually the English changed their minds and paid him to agree that he had never actually been king, so Louis doesn't appear in any official list of Kings of England.
4b0X TIL during the Siege of Baghdad, The Grand Library of Baghdad, containing countless precious historical documents and books on subjects from medicine to astronomy, was destroyed along with the House of Wisdom. The Tigris waters ran black with ink from the big quantities of books flung into the river