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TIL Cheerios will send people free wildflower seeds in an effort to save the dwindling bee population

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69lbw TIL that Beethoven’s hearing loss may have helped him compose. He used “bone conduction” by clenching a rod in his teeth and pressing it against his piano, to receive perception of the sound when vibrations transfer from the piano to his jaw.
Ob9Y TIL during the Great Smog in London, 1952, visibility was so poor that pedestrians were helped through the streets by the blind.
xVB0k TIL Since its inception in 1808, "Australia Day" has been held on six different dates, not just January 26. The knowledge of this somewhat undermines the anti-"change the date" movement's main platform.
WGW8 TIL 10,000 Iowan farmers built 380 miles of road (entire width of the state) in one hour on a Saturday morning in 1910
RyK7 TIL that to make the Snickers Brady Bunch commercial, the stand-in actors had to have the exact same chin, mouth, and lip proportions as the original Bradys, and had to keep their heads as still as possible to make tracking the faces easier.