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TIL 99% of people in Estonia have blue eyes

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5oQB TIL John Swartzwelder, a contributor to The Simpsons, liked writing and chainsmoking in a coffee shop so much that when California banned smoking in public places, he simply purchased his regular booth, installed it in his home, and continued his work as if nothing had changed.
kwae TIL that sounds can still be heard in space despite the lack of air. Radio waves exist, emitted by planetary bodies, that can be detected by the human ear. NASA released audio files demonstrating this.
woPg6 TIL that both Johnny 5 from Short Circuit and Frank the Pug from Men In Black were both voiced by the same person, voice actor and pupeteer Tim Blaney.
OGPbL TIL Pilates was invented by Joseph Pilates in a WW1 while in an Internment Camp
R78Nl TIL on September 11th 2001, after both towers fell, the cricket like chirping heard around ground zero each represented the PASS device of a fallen firefighter.