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TIL that singing clearly is possible with a speech impediment because singing and speech are processed by different hemispheres of the brain

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nemMo TIL Grave robbers target confederate soldiers in the United States. Items can be sold at high prices to antique collectors. Button from confederate uniform ($150); full uniforms and medals ($500+); swords used by generals ($20,000+).
grm6X TIL on 30 1993, CERN opened the World Wide Web, "a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents," when it established the very first URL, http://info.cern.ch. It's still there.
rRVx0 TIL about the “Seneca Drums,” a mysterious booming sound that comes from Seneca Lake in upstate NY.
awNQ0 TIL that for the last 100 years, Minnesota's been refusing requests from Virginia to return a captured Confederate Battle flag; in 2000 Gov. Jesse Ventura responded “Why? We won. ... We took it. That makes it our heritage.”
Xrpr TIL: Adult frogs of the species Pseudis Paradoxa are only a quarter of the size of their tadpoles. They are commonly known as “Paradoxical Frog”.