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TIL People with depression feel better after listening to sad music

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oB1WE TIL because of a 1954 report on illiteracy, Houghton Mifflin's edu director gave Theodor Geisel with a list of 348 words he thought 1st graders should learn, asking Geisel to cut it down to 250 and to use those words to write a book. Geisel returned using 236 of them in his book, The Cat in the Hat.
4kmQb TIL Lahaina, Maui's massive, famous banyan tree actually survived the wildfires that ravaged the Western side of the Hawaiian island last year
PeVe TIL that ‘Intergalactic’ by the Beastie Boys was based on a classical composition called “Night on Bald Mountain.”
ydEJ TIL A third of generated electricity is lost, simply because of the thermal properties of steel.
VMgXB TIL Abraham Lincoln's corpse was sent on a two-week funeral tour across America, shown openly to thousands. In the course of the trip the body visibly decomposed, bloated, and darkened. In New York City alone, the body was seen by over 150,000 and exposed to the air for 23 hours straight