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TIL that a woman driving to Dave Matthews concert stopped to help a stranded cyclist who turned out to be Dave Matthews himself. The woman got front row tickets, backstage access and Dave took her boyfriend and her for dinner

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ne1ZW TIL (According to Brent Berlin and Paul Kay's 1969 study Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution) Names for brown, purple, pink, orange, and gray will not emerge in a language until the language has made a distinction between green and blue.
LaYQ TIL that Jim Dale performed 300 voices for the Harry Potter Audiobooks and had to playback recordings of himself on set to remember each one, each time.
1abJ8 TIL in a large study of over 680,000 people, it was found women are more empathetic and men more analytical on average.
9Yo7m TIL about mud cookies that made from dirt mixed with salt and vegetable shortening or fat. People eat them as a way to stave off starvation in one of the poorest country on Earth, Haiti.
wLjvW TIL that Aaliyah (1/16/1979) was 15 years old when she married R. Kelly (1/8/1967) on 8/31/1994. He was 28 and she was 16 when their marriage was annulled on 2/7/1995.