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TIL that no research has ever been done on the pee shiver.

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N7446 TIL Steinway & Sons (1853) pianos are handcrafted and take a year to build. The company's 600,000th piano was built in 2015 with an inlaid Fibonacci design in the lid. It is valued at $2.4 million.
WV98 TIL, During the 1970’s the Russian space agency had a orbiting station which was armed with a 30mm cannon for ‘self defence’ and was test fired during it’s last mission.
loJma TIL Keanu Reeves often foregoes some of his paycheck so that producers can bring on other notable actors. On The Devil's Advocate, he reduced his salary by a few million dollars so that they could afford Al Pacino, and he did the same thing on The Replacements to be able to work with Gene Hackman.
0Yn5 TIL that two Japanese sled dogs survived alone in Antarctica for 11 months
pgrN TIL of Tommy McHugh, who at 51 “attempted to evacuate his bowels quickly due to a knock on the toilet door,” suffered a brain hemorrhage, and unlocked a previously hidden talent for creating poetry and art