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Scientists just explained what musicians knew all along: repeating words sound like music

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A6g TIL that movie trailers are so-called because they used to be played AFTER a movie
jNLaN TIL of the 'Tri-State Tornado', a category F5 tornado that lasted almost 4 hours, caused $2.2 billion dollars in damages, killed 695 people, and carved a path from Missouri through Illinois to Indiana back in 1925.
NXPoP TIL: The people of Borneo have many beliefs concerning Orangutans. Some believe they are smart enough to speak, but choose not to. The Dayak creation myth say that they are God's first attempt at creating humans, while other tribes believe they reincarnate as orangutans.
Py1G TIL that Archimedes tactics for helping fight off the Romans from Syracuse were so effective that if the Romans saw a piece of rope or wood sticking out of a wall in a strange way, they would run in fear that Archimedes had tampered it.
D1oe TIL that Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, admits that he was wrong about nuclear power