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TIL the United States is second behind China in the consumption of illegal animal products like ivory, rhinoceros horn and tiger blood

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ep075 TIL French composer Olivier Messiaen wrote his avant garde masterpiece "Quartet For The End Of Time", inspired by Book Of Revelation and birdsong, on a prisoner-of-war camp in Görlitz, Germany on the available instruments. It was also premiered there in 1941.
OoeeL TIL: Dildo, unincorporated town in Newfoundland, Canada, population 1,198. “In the 20th century there were several campaigns to change the name, though all failed”
R5mZ7 TIL Bruce Springsteen's famous song, 'Born in the U.S.A.', is actually a critique of the government's treatment of Vietnam War veterans
ADGOB TIL For every 200 million sperm in each human ejaculation, 2 million make it into the cervix, 1 million make it into the uterus, 10,000 make it to the top of the organ, 5,000 enter the uterotubal junction, 1000 enter the Fallopian tube, 200 reach the egg and only 1 enters the egg to fertilize it.
Y7m7W TIL in US music notation, the name Do doesn't refer to a specific note (C) but to the first note of the scale you're using. So any note can be called Do