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TIL about Musical Anehdonia, a neurological condition where a person doesn't like or listen to music. They understand and comprehend music, just don't find any enjoyment from listening to music.

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JY9Ym TIL about two little-known places with the world's shortest names. "Å" (population 150) is a tiny fishing hamlet in the Lofoten Islands, a granite chain in north-west Norway, in the Arctic circle, while "Y" is an even smaller French village, with only 29 inhabitants.
VMOQp TIL in 1930, George Stathakis, went over Niagara falls in a barrel. Upon impact, the barrel was stuck behind a curtain of water and could not be recovered for 18 hours. Stathakis took the plunge with his pet turtle, which was said to be around 150 years old. The turtle survived the ordeal.
GjQ TIL that when Robert Ballard announced he was mounting a mission to find the Titanic, it was actually a cover story for a classified mission to inspect lost nuclear submarines. They finished before they were due back, so the team spent the extra time at sea looking for the Titanic—and found it.
6EXWl TIL that there is a project called the innocence project aiming to revoke wrongful convictions through DNA tests. They have recently exonerated a man who spent 36 years in prison for a crime he did not commit
M7BjV TIL about the 1937 marriage of 22-year-old Charlie Johns and 9-year-old Eunice Winstead, causing national attention after an article was written in Life magazine. It led to the state of Tennessee introducing a new law setting the minimum marriage age as 14. Other US jurisdictions followed similarly.