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TIL 70% of Americans are either overweight or obese

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XExVR TIL of accidental Stereo Sound. Where by Two recorders with microphones in different positions captured both left and right audio of an artist’s recording session. Decades later these recordings were then merged together to give stereo sound, pre-dating true stereophonic sound by a good 20 years
b9bj0 TIL that only 2 songs sung by villains have been nominated by the Academy for best song: “Mean Green Mother from Outer Space” from Little Shop of Horrors and “Blame Canada” from the South Park movie. “Mean Green” was also the first with profanity to be nominated.
l7nk5 TIL that getting a driver's license in Norway can cost around 30,000 NOK, or US$3,675
0ZjR TIL the evolutionary advantage for pruney fingers is they help us grip wet surfaces
KOJPw TIL in 1998, Disney's copyright on Pluto, set to expire in 2003, was extended by the passage of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. Sonny Bono was an American singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and congressman who came to fame in partnership with his second wife Cher.