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TIL in 1978 Cher did a 13 minute One Woman show of West Side Story songs using green screen

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OomyX TIL James Blunt, who wrote, ''You're Beatiful'', studied aerospace manufacturing engineering and became an army captain, before starting his career at 30 years old.
wLpv1 TIL That some bacteria have tiny magnetic crystals that help them avoid oxygen by sensing the earth's magnetic field.
LQlo0 TIL: about the 1871 Peshtigo WI Fire. It was far worse than the great Chicago fire that burned on the same day. The fire consumed 17 entire cities and over 1.2 million acres, leaving up to 2,500 dead. The dead were buried in mass graves because there was no one left to identify the bodies.
WkrdA TIL Oregon is the fastest speaking state in the US
xVJv0 TIL that if you add 250ml of ethanol to 250ml of water, you get less than 500ml of liquid. This is due to strong hydrogen bonding that draws the different molecules close together, and because ethanol interferes with any open structures in the water, causing the molecules to pack closer together.