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TIL A woodchuck can chuck 361.9237001 cubic centimeters of wood per a day.

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W7BJd TIL that Living Colour vocalist Corey Glover originally aspired to be an actor and was recruited by guitarist and founder Vernon Reid after seeing him sing "Happy Birthday" at a party.
lo7OA Yes, but no more than listening to Justin Bieber. The misconception that there's something unique about Mozart's ability to increase brainpower began in 1993, with a paper in Nature. Neurobiologists Gordon Shaw, Frances Rauscher and Katherine Ky of the University of California at Irvine found that students who listened to 10 minutes of a Mozart sonata demonstrated a temporary increase in spatial-temporal reasoning, as measured by an IQ test.
vQyx TIL Straight Outta Compton was never played in Compton because the city has no movie theaters.
MeYw0 TIL that there's a town in the Dominican republic which for some time has had a regular population of children who appear female throughout childhood, but develop male organs during puberty. They call these boys "guevedoces" which is slang for "eggs (testes) at twelve".
Oo58g TIL when Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, he carried with him a piece from the Wright brothers' first airplane