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TIL MMA fighter Rory MacDonald would come out to music like M.C. Hammer's "U Can't Touch This", "300 Violin Orchestra" and Nickleback because the music guy was texting Rory's old phone number for his walkout music and a fan was responding

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oBG7 TIL when Radiohead’s album Kid A appeared on Napster a month before it was due to release, Thom Yorke responded with “It encourages enthusiasm for music in a way that the music industry has long forgotten to do.”
ADBla TIL evidence of Homo erectus having lived on remote islands 150 miles of the coast of Africa suggests they were capable of crossing long distances over the sea, between 500,000 and a million years ago, which implies that they built boats.
pYwBO TIL The expiration dates on plastic water bottles is for the plastic bottles not the water.
woMY1 TIL about the early Victorian belief that the jarring motion of the train could drive sane people mad or trigger violent outbursts.
woPb1 TIL 70 percent of human genes are found in zebrafish, which is one of the reasons why they are excellent for modeling human diseases such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy and melanoma. They are also used to study gene mutations and test new drugs.