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TIL that in 2008 and at the age of 45, Flea, bass player of the multiplatinum rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, enrolled as a freshman at University of Southern California's music program to learn the academic side of music.

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NXBJN TIL about the "My Way Killings" a social phenomenon in the Philippines that describes a string of 12 unrelated murders between 2002-2012 all related to Frank Sinatra's song My Way.
9wN0X TIL life expectancy in the Bronze and Iron Age was 26.
Zp5Ko TIL: Giraffes no make sound much, they mostly quiet. They have long necks to reach tree leafs. Baby giraffes born and drop like 6 feets to ground, but they ok. Giraffes sleep very little, like 30 min in day.
PKkZ TIL that the first fireman killed during the September 11 attacks died at 9:30am when a civilian who had jumped from the South Tower landed on him.
1ZKd TIL that an experiment called the “Monster Study” was conducted on 22 orphans in Iowa. In it, half of the kids consistently were teased for stuttering and developed speech problems even when they were normal before the experiment.