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TIL Kenny Rogers started his music career as a double bass player in a jazz trio

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yQP5X TIL the world's largest dam is so big that NASA scientists calculated that shift of water mass stored by the dams would slow down earth's rotation and increase the length of the earth's day by 0.06 microseconds.
ZKPp TIL the British used Pundits to explore Tibet in the 1800s. Disguised as religious pilgrims, these Indian men were trained to walk precisely 2,000 steps per mile, and mapped much of the area for the British while skirting the bans placed on westerners.
dmXE TIL young chimpanzees have better numerical memory than adult humans
v6vD TIL that the word O.K. came from the 8th president of the U.S. Martin Van Buren’s nickname of Old Kinderhook. When his signature was needed he intialed it O.K. Soon enough, his secretaries who ask him to OK something and the phrase spread.
OWk4 TIL that Teller started the practice of being silent during performances to avoid being heckled at frats while in college.