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TIL that higher levels of omega-3 in diet are associated with better sleep

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78ARX TIL before overdrive guitar pedals were invented, rock pioneer Link Wray would intentionally stab the speaker cone of his guitar amps with a pencil to achieve a distorted sound. This resulting effect can be heard on his 1958 song “Rumble”.
OGeO4 TIL To date, six nuclear weapons have been lost in the US and never recovered. One fell in the Pacific Ocean and quickly sank in 16,000 feet of water and is believed to still be there today. Another one was dropped in Georgia by the aircraft carrying it and was never found.
l7Ov1 TIL a deep-space supernova or sun-flare expelling cosmic rays and charged particles may have caused a 2003 Belgium miscounted election by bit flipping an election machine and causing a candidate to receive an extra 4096 votes
p8PaN TIL that Stephen King cannot remember writing Cujo (1981) because he was so out of it on cocaine
v1eLj TIL that wasabi is so expensive and difficult to grow, that almost all of it on the market is in fact dyed horseradish.