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TIL Manatees regulate their buoyancy by storing and releasing farts

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6doW TIL when accused of influencing a suicide pact by backmasking the words “Do it” in one of their songs, Judas Priest said that if they wanted to insert subliminal commands, they would have preferred to insert the command “buy more of our records”.
7rGvp TIL inside the worlds quietest room you can hear your own heartbeat and your bones moving
1adEP TIL: about the Replication Crisis; a phrase coined in the early 2010's referring to an ongoing methodological crisis concerning the finding that 70% of published scientific studies are difficult or impossible to replicate or reproduce.
69v6X TIL: The Third Reich produced a Titanic movie adaptation in 1943 used as propaganda blaming British and American capitalism for the tragedy
x6o01 TIL of "set de flo'", an old African-American type of dance contest in which participants would do specific dance moves inside a circle on the floor; if you step outside the circle, you lose. Sometimes they would balance a glass of water on their head for extra challenge.