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TIL that when choir members sing, their heartbeats are in synch, due to the fact they breathe at the same times.

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D1ygP TIL farts don’t dissipate easily in space and a particularly smelly astronaut, while in the space shuttle’s middeck, would position his butt next to an air hose that led to the ISS and fire away. He called it “sending emails” to the ISS
xVmdk TIL the 2012 Summer Olympic Committee contacted the manager of “The Who” to see if drummer Keith Moon was available to perform at the Olympics. Unbeknownst to them, he died 34 years earlier in 1978.
9wKZQ TIL that John Cena is the only musical artist to have their debut album be certified Platinum, and then never release another album again.
V7RZ TIL that Eddie Vedder wrote ‘Jeremy’ after reading a brief newspaper article about a 15-year-old boy in Texas who brought a gun to class and shot himself, in front of his teacher and thirty students. Vedder wanted to show how even such a dramatic gesture would only get a few words in the daily news.
0w1l5 TIL The supermarket escalator where North Korean leader Kim Jong Il was last seen in public before death has been turned into a shrine