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TIL a scorpion’s anus is at the end of its tail, not on its butt

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x6p4g TIL about the 'Loudness War' - beginning in the 1980s and peaking in the early 2000s, music producers and broadcasters increased the audio levels of albums and radio stations. As a result of consumer complaints, US legislators passed the CALM act which mandated maximum broadcast sound levels.
R7aY1 TIL of No Kum-Sok, a North Korean pilot who defected to South Korea by flying his MiG-15 near-supersonic across the border. After nearly crashing into an F-86 while landing, he taxied, parked his plane, exited and began tearing a picture of Kim Il-Sung.
newdb TIL Sodium Benzoate, an infamous food preservative, forms in the body after Cinnamon consumption. Mouse models also show anti-inflammatory effects; yet to be studied in humans
M4j0 TIL Dying is illegal in Longyearbyen, Norway because the town’s small graveyard stopped accepting bodies after discovering the permafrost prevented the bodies from decomposing.
e0ROg TIL Leonardo da Vinci doesn't have the last name "da Vinci." That means "from Vinci" as in Vinci, Florence Italy (where he's from).