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TIL the chills experienced when listening to music is a result of the brain releasing dopeamine in anticipation of the peak moment during a song.

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P1Qve TIL that the judge from My Cousin Vinny was Herman Munster, Fred Gwynne.
4k1Y6 TIL L.A.'s Mulholland Drive is named for William Mulholland, the engineer who brought water to the county. Four years after the road was named for him, his crowning achievement the St. Francis Dam broke and killed 431 people
5VgK8 TIL Corelle's dishware before 2005 has very HIGH amounts of lead in it
nepZP TIL trees can stimulate cloud production in order to cool down by producing substances known as monoterpenes
OO1a TIL Anne Frank’s father attempted to seek asylum in the US.