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TIL that 75 percent of all silent films ever made are estimated to be completely lost, as well as half of all films made from 1927 to 1950

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NXRN TIL Eddie Van Halen actually started out playing the drums. He bought a drum set and his brother bought a guitar. When his brother got better at the drums than him, Eddie said “OK, fuck you, I’ll play your guitar.”
6E5dX TIL while humans produce vitamin D by exposing their skin to sunlight, cats and dogs must ingest their own fur as a source of their vitamin D. This is the reason why they love to lay in the sun and groom themselves (probably because it feels good too)
W7kj9 TIL that there was a blue man named Paul “Papa Smurf” Karason who had a rare skin condition that made his skin entirely blue from high red blood cell count which caused his skin not to release oxygen at normal levels
Oow9X TIL that despite virtually eliminating Salmonella from their food supply, the rate of Campylobacter infections (primarily from infected poultry) in Denmark is nearly 5x higher than in the United States.
5YmLQ TIL of the 10,000 Year Clock, a clock being built inside a mountain in Texas, designed to run for 10,000 years, without electricity, even if no one ever visits.