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TIL The Sun makes a sound but we can't hear it

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eGj6 TIL the Dutch King had secretly been piloting commercial KLM airplanes as a “relaxing hobby” for 21 years as of May, 2017
8aXKV TIL a man’s mother was murdered by a hitchhiker whom he’d encountered that very same evening. He’d seen him in the vicinity of his home before finding his mother’s body, and told the police the hitchhiker was the culprit. They didn’t believe him until they found evidence supporting his story.
45nb TIL Johnny Cash’s family refused to allow “Ring of Fire” to be used in an advertisement for hemorrhoid-relief
YWbr TIL: 10% of Europeans are immune to the HIV virus.
GYGlj TIL the only two surviving species of sloth aren’t closely related at all and most likely developed suspensorial behavior (hanging from trees) independently, an example of convergent evolution.