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TIL Saturn rings disappear every few years

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5VeZ9 TIL Edd Kalehoff who composed and performed The Price Is Right theme is not officially credited for it and has lost millions in royalties from it over his life
8eRkL TIL that there's something called the "preparedness paradox." Preparation for a danger (an epidemic, natural disaster, etc.) can keep people from being harmed by that danger. Since people didn't see negative consequences from the danger, they wrongly conclude that the danger wasn't bad to start with
0wQ7v TIL that we actually work much more now compared to our hunter-gatherer ancestors who lived 10,000 years ago!
wjWY TIL The worlds most isolated tree, 400 km away from anything, died when a drunk truck driver hit it in 1973.
VoAG TIL the Rocky Horror Picture Show is the longest-running film in histroy