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TIL Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill of ZZ Top were once offered $1,000,000 to shave their beards for a Gillette ad, to which they both declined.

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eXYn TIL The 52-Hertz whale a.k.a. “The World’s Loneliest Whale” has a call that is much higher pitched than that of other whale species. It appears to be the only individual whale emitting a call at this frequency. It has been detected regularly in many locations since the 1980’s.
wLW7o TIL: The Grand Canyon was formed not by the Colorado River cutting down into the landscape, but the landscape rising up and the river roughly maintaining its altitude above sea level
o4eY TIL slot machines have pictures of various fruits because they used to dispense various flavors of gum instead of coins.
4jNN TIL we have reached “peak child” some years ago. The number of children in the world is not increasing anymore and global fertility is trending downwards
QJba6 TIL that helicopter downwash is used to shake the water off of cherries after rain so they do not swell and split before harvest.