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TIL Sharks love heavy metal because the low-frequency vibrations are similar to the sounds made by struggling fish

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aw8VJ TIL The Rarámuri people of northwestern Mexico are the world's finest endurance runners. Distances up to 435 miles (700km) without rest are on record, and running 200 miles (320km) or more is commonplace. They do this in rough mountainous terrain in sandals or completely barefoot.
gM5GD TIL that the furthest detected individual star is 14.4 billion light years from Earth. We can detect it from so far away because gravity from objects between us and the star have warped its light, magnifying it 2000 times and focusing the star's light onto Earth for telescopes to pick up.
989B TIL that a toilet was dropped as a bomb from an airplane during Vietnam war
nWXA7 TIL that Australia is wider than the moon!!!
9YdlQ TIL that in many places in the world, graves are not owned, they are rented, and if the rent isn't paid after you're dead, your body is evicted into a mass grave.