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TIL according to a study done by a cognitive neuroscientist, ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’ is the most feel-good song of all time.

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ne5a7 TIL Gardeners have attempted to breed blue roses for centuries - without success. Researchers managed to give white roses a tint of blue but still cannot produce natural blue roses.
690bm TIL during Obon, an annual family reunion holiday in Japan, the spirits of ancestors are believed to revisit household altars, and to help them come back home and return, a cucumber horse and an eggplant cow are crafted as vessels, respectively.
kObw4 TIL: A bird native to Asia (Shrike) impales it’s prey before consuming it
DQpyV TIL the reason why it's called upper and lower case letters is because when Gutenberg created his printing press the letter blocks were kept in wooden cases and the small letters were stored below the capital letters, ergo; lower case letters🤯
XEEaE TIL C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien had a writing club called the Inklings. They'd read works, and occasionally held a contest in which they'd try to go the longest reading Amanda McKittrick Ros's novels aloud without laughing.