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TIL that dogs tilt their heads when a human speaks to them because they’re trying to identify the words, locate their source and see the speaker better

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mYEY TIL The Segway was #1 on Time’s worst inventions of all time
lYEa TIL that actor Javier Bardem was hesitant to play Anton Chigurh in ‘No Country For Old Men’ because he hated violence, had never fired a gun, was uncomfortable speaking English and doesn’t drive a car.
OG6YX TIL Gordon Lightfoot was inspired to write "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" when he saw the name misspelled as "Edmond" in Newsweek magazine. He felt the misspelling dishonored the memory of the 29 men who died when the freighter sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975.
l7OA7 TIL US President Lyndon Johnson installed a shower in the White House that had the intensity of a firehouse and got so hot it regularly set of the fire alarms. One of Nixon's first acts as president was to have the shower torn out.
wOMY TIL Haydn wrote a symphony nicknamed “the Palindrome” in which halfway through the 3rd movement, it is played the same way as the beginning, only backwards.