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TIL Steven Seagal made an attempt at becoming Jamaican reggae singer (he does the accent)

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oBJLW TIL about Vic Tandy, an engineer who established a connection between supposed paranormal activity and infrasound frequency (~19Hz), which is below the range of human hearing and also roughly the resonant frequency of our eyeballs, causing some people to 'see' things that aren't there.
4XJg TIL George Takei wants Star Wars and Star Trek fans to come together and fight the Twilight menace.
Bgbgy TIL the Lamport logical timestamp algorithm is used to determine order of events on distributed computer systems.
8dyG TIL of the 1914 Christmas Truce. After months of fighting, German and Allied artillery fell silent, and Christmas carols filled the air instead. Both parties got out of their trenches and exchanged food, and held friendly football matches.
5V1eR TIL archaeologists working in a 2,500 y.o. Chinese cemetery unearthed charred incense burners and burnt stones that tested high for cannabinol, which is released when THC is burned. "Unlike many wild varieties, the cannabis smoked at the site [...] was pretty potent stuff."