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TIL Stephen Hawking refuses to upgrade his voice program to a more natural sound because he considers it to be “his own personal voice”

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x9JD TIL Heath Ledger was an avid chess player; he won Western Australia’s junior chess championship at age 10 and as an adult he would play against other chess enthusiasts at Washington Square Park.
6EVwJ TIL that singer-songwriter Tori Amos, received a full scholarship to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University at the age of five. She is the youngest person ever to have been admitted. At the age of eleven, she was expelled for what Rolling Stone described as "musical insubordination".
WkMKA TIL, that while they may look silly and harmless, platypuses can be dangerous — at least certain ones. The males come equipped with sharp stingers on the heels of their rear feet that can add some extra pain to a kick.
9YLLr TIL sperm whales are the loudest animal on Earth and if swimming around them they can kill a human by causing your body to cook from the inside due to the incredible decibles of noise from their clicking which is louder than the space shuttle launching.
AN15o TIL Pilates was invented by a man named “Joseph Pilates”