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TIL chewing gum stops songs from getting stuck in your head

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4nrw TIL a U.S congressman who sits on the Committee on Science and Technology believes that evolution and other popular scientific theories are “lies straight from the Pit of Hell … lies to try to keep me and all the folks who are taught that from understanding that they need a savior.”
J1N6V TIL that country music is big in many parts of Africa
VByjp TIL of the rhyme-as-reason effect. When a short phrase or declaration uses rhyme, the listener is more likely to believe it's true
nO0P TIL that mathematicians living in 16th Century Italy would have math duels to see who was the best. It would be so metal if math duels could still happen today.
ANdZd TIL as of 2014, there were ~250 corpses that had been cryonically preserved. Only one cryonically preserved corpse pre-dates 1974