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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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M0Ba TIL that had “Jedi” been counted as an answer in the 2001 census it would be the second largest religion in New Zealand.
7rOVO TIL that the patient in the National Geographic best picture of 1987 depicting the famous 23hrs heart transplantation which shows the Doctor monitoring his vitals while the assistant rests in the corner not only survived but outlived the doctor.
kO5eg TIL that names like escalator, heroin, flip phone, and videotape where all once trademarked before they were genericized which is when a trademark becomes so important and synonymous with a type of product that it becomes a generic term
VZmQ TIL an Airbus A380 weighs 400 tons, about twice what the Statue of Liberty does
8a9gV TIL: After a 1979 court case ruled the city could not be held responsible for people tripping and falling on cracked sidewalks unless the city had been previously notified of the hazard, the Trial Lawyers formed a committee to map every crack, pothole, and other hazard in the city and report them.