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TIL: MIT claims to have found a “language universal” that ties all languages together

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aggZ TIL The Leaning Tower of Pisa is inclined by only 4 degrees.
16a74 TIL of Stephan Bibrowski, better known as Lionel the lion-faced man due to the 8 inch long hair that covered his entire face. Stephan's mother gave him away at the age of 4 as she had witnessed a lion mauling her husband while she was pregnant with Stephan, and thus viewed him as an abomination.
5VlaR TIL That the song 'Valerie' by Steve Winwood made the Billboard Top 100 twice...five years apart. First on Winwood's album 'Talking Back to the Night' and then a remixed version from his compilation album 'Chronicles'. It charted at 70 and 9 respecitvely.
9wY5r TIL Helen Keller, a famous American woman known for overcoming deafness and blindness to lead a successful life, was a Socialist political activist, and lead a commission in the IWW for blind and disabled people.
QNRBX TIL Hard Rock Cafes have one menu item named after a song, and that item is "One NIght in Bangkok Spicy Shrimp"