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TIL Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins) has a 4 octave vocal range

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nej5G TIL that President Carter once told a joke during a speech to a Japanese audience which caused the audience to erupt in laughter. Impressed, he asked how the interpreter managed to get such a laugh. The interpreter admitted that he had said, “President Carter told a funny story. Everyone must laugh”
gMPnL TIL original Beatles bassist Stuart Sutcliffe, who was an art school friend of John Lennon’s and the first to sport the later-on iconic mop top haircut, left the band to pursue his career as a painter, but would die from an aneurysm less than a year later.
rR7e0 TIL there is a disorder that makes the person with it unable to see anything in motion.
jN16R TIL there is reportedly $2 million worth of treasure hidden in the Rocky Mountains. The man who claims he stashed it there says he did it to cheer people up after the Great Recession. Critics say he’s making it all up just to sell copies of his memoirs
9wpkQ TIL that squirrels don’t sweat or pant so when they get hot they lay flat on the ground to cool off. This is called, “Splooting”.