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TIL Elevator Music was created to distract riders from the terrifying sounds of early elevators.

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PYv8Z TIL the most dangerous frequency is at the median alpha-rhythm frequencies of the brain, 7 hz. At high volumes, infrasound can directly affect the human central nervous system causing disorientation, anxiety, panic, bowel spasms, nausea, vomiting, and eventually organ rupture.
4X0gN TIL that the Torch Relay in the Olympic Games was actually invented by Germans in 1936 as political propaganda used by the Nazis to promote their cause in conjunction with the Olympics.
5aPD TIL that we are living in the 6th Extinction Event and that humans are credited with causing it.
9wk6 TIL Seth MacFarlane and Mark Wahlberg both were booked on AA flight 11 which crashed into the World Trade Center. Wahlberg decided last minute to fly to Toronto, and MacFarlane missed it by just 10 minutes due to a hangover.
11kd TIL of Brenda Spencer, who shot up an elementary school at age 16, killing two and injuring eight children and a cop. When questioned why she did it, she simply said, “I don’t like Mondays.”