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TIL The first person to hear Journey’s “Only the Young” was terminally ill, 16 year old Kenny Sykaluk, who died the next day still holding the Walkman in his hand

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P15Dg TIL that the longest recorded case of hiccups lasted for 68 years! Charles Osborne from Iowa started hiccuping in 1922 and continued until 1990, hiccuping an estimated 430 million times during that period. His hiccups finally stopped one year before his death in 1991.
A6Mw TIL There’s a prison in Brazil that allows inmates to pedal stationary bicycles, providing electricity to a nearby city in exchange for reduced sentences.
9wLvr TIL there is a type of jellyfish that can live forever.
8yyX TIL Shakira has been making music for more than 23 years and can play the guitar, drums, percussion and harmonica. She also speaks 7 different languages, is the founder of a charity called Pies Descalzos and is a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF.
N7JyE TIL: Given their lack of empathy, psychopaths are not susceptible to contagious yawning, according to a study conducted in 2015 at Baylor University