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TIL “The Hum” is a low frequency sound heard by about 10% of the population at night and on overcast days

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9GeD TIL that after five months, Guns N’ Roses’ first album attracted only modest interest. MTV then humored a request from their label by airing “Welcome to the Jungle” at 4am on a Sunday. Sales exploded, eventually selling 15 million copies in the US alone, one of the best debuts in history.
7rVML TIL astronaut Gordon Cooper compiled a secret map containing the locations of 'hundreds' of shipwrecks which he uncovered from space whilst searching for magnetic anomalies during the Mercury 9 Faith 7 expedition
OoPAY TIL a “son of a gun” used to mean a child born on a a naval ship of uncertain paternity (ie a soldier’s bastard).
jPdX TIL that the French Foreign Legion allows you to enlist with a fake identity, allowing members to effectively start their lives over.
1JD7 TIL that the first movie shown in a theater setting caused the audience to run away because they thought a train was going to come out of the screen.