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TIL that one of the reasons we enjoy music is because the human brain has evolved to identify and enjoy patterns (such as chord progressions or a melody) which, in turn, releases dopamine

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8a1wL TIL a 1947 Gallup poll revealed 45% of the US thought Hitler was still alive
bjlN TIL it would only take ~12 GB to download all ~5,000,000 articles from Wikipedia.
l7KYN TIL that British Lawyers and Judges still regularly wear wigs in court.
ANxLn TIL in 1924 French colonists deliberately introduced an insect to Madagascar in order to kill off plants which native pastoralists used as food and animal feed - leading to a famine which killed hundreds and displaced thousands, but cleared land and made labor available for French sugar plantations
6EZgZ TIL the ancient Greeks established a colony in the middle of the 6th century BC named Odessos, after Homer's epic Odyssey. The area of the settlement changed hands many times before it was renamed Odessa, now part of Ukraine, in 1795.