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TIL that the reason we feel compelled sing in the shower is partly because the reverb of the shower boosts the voice, adds more bass, and sounds more powerful, thus boosting the singer's confidence to sing.

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JYDB4 TIL you would need to eat about 200 apple seeds, or about 20 whole apples to kill yourself.
rBe1 TIL the end credits for ‘Airplane!’ lists Adolf Hitler as the 'Worst boy’, as opposed to a movie industry term 'Best boy’ (gaffer/key grip department foreman).
k5ed TIL that British sniper Matt Hughes managed to kill an enemy with a half-mile sniper shot which curved 56 feet(17 meters) in the air before hitting the target.
0dGdN TIL Orcas will even kill other whales
R74v6 TIL when Henry Ford II took control of Ford Motor Co., the first thing he did was fire his grandfather's brutal, union-busting head of security by sending his own second-in-command, a former FBI agent, to deliver the news. Both men drew handguns on each other.