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TIL that there is a disease that is called “Maple Syrup Urine Disease”

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Brbek Today I learned the guitar that's smashed in The Hateful Eight was the real museum piece dating back to the 1870s
8d1K TIL Goldenrod flowers were considered a weed in the United States until the 1980s. They’re made of as much as 12% rubber. Thomas Edison experimented to grow a 12 foot Goldenrod. His friend Henry Ford gifted him a model T made with Goldenrod tires.
WkbNY TIL: Chris Ballew, the lead singer of the band “The Presidents of the United States” also sings kids songs under the name “Caspar Babypants”.
4kgOa TIL “Bésame Mucho” (“Kiss Me a Lot”) was written in 1941 by Consuelo Velasquez, who was about 15 years old at the time, in bolero style. Inspired by the Nightingale Aria from the opera “Goyescas” by Enrique Granados, she said that she had never been kissed when she wrote the song.
a9Zb TIL There is a UN treaty protecting freedom of thought, freedom of conscience, and freedom of religion as human rights