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TIL Rapper Busta Rhymes voiced Reptar from Rugrats

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p8rw4 TIL that the tongue twister “She sells seashells by the seashore” is based on the life of Mary Anning. Mary and her brother learned to find, identify and sell fossils in an effort to support their family after their father died.
R9Rj TIL Radox Spa commissioned a study to find the Top 9 most relaxing songs. The British Academy of Sound Therapy then teamed w/ Marconi Union to scientifically create the most calming song called Weightless. Using entrainment, your heart rate slows, and specific harmonic intervals create euphoria.
vD78 TIL An April Fool’s Day Joke on the BBC resulted in a number of people contacting them in order to discover how they could grow their own Spaghetti Trees. At the time, Spaghetti was fairly unknown in the UK. It is regarded as one of the biggest hoaxes ever from a reputable news establishment.
rR7my TIL that prior the 1800’s, the use of the word “Propaganda" was commonly associated with the Vaticans “pontifical administration” to further Catholicism in third world countries.
b9Ek0 TIL Mars only gets close enough to Earth to give up much detail just once every 780 days. It’s the only planet to reveal an appreciable amount of surface detail in a small telescope, and it also features occasional surprises such as dust storms and local fogs and cloud banks