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TIL - Rats prefer the sound of silence to Beethoven and Miles Davis – except when they are on drugs. Then, they prefer the jazz.

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Wkle4 TIL the universe was once exactly room temperature (between 10 to 17 million years after the Big Bang).
b90mN TIL of Benjamin Ferencz. A Transylvanian-born 99 year old lawyer who was chief prosecutor in the Einzatzgruppen trial in Nuremberg. In 2016 he donated $1m to the Washington Holocaust Museum. Not only does he still continue to work to this day, but he does 125 push ups every morning
6EjQ8 TIL of the more than 750,000 drafted in the American Civl War during 1863 and 1864, only about 46,000 actually saw battle. The remaining 85% avoided the war by literally running away, finding someone else to take their place, or paying the $300 commutation fee.
5YDAn TIL that Samuel Colt financed his invention and development of the revolver handgun by performing laughing gas demonstrations across the United States and Canada.
eWxg TIL Louis CK gets stoned and watches 3D IMAX movies alone (at 14:00). “It’s my favorite thing in life”