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TIL Weird Al donated all the profits for "Achy Breaky Song" to charity because he felt the song was "mean-spirited" since all it did was shit on Billy Ray Cyrus

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D1ALj TIL that the hottest thing in the known universe is actually on Earth: the Large Hadron Collider can reach temperatures of 4 trillion Kelvin.
m1J4M TIL that the Powerball drawing on March 30, 2005, produced 110 2nd-prize winners. The total payout was $19.4 million, 89 of them receiving $100,000 each, while the other 21 received $500,000 each. All 110 winners had played numbers from fortune cookies made by Wonton Food Inc
69yGl TIL that a sphincter muscle, similar to the one humans use to hold in gases, prevents water from entering the blowholes of marine mammals.
KOg1w TIL The eruption of Vesuvius in 79CE destroyed the city of Pompeii, and buried its library in ash. Texts from that library are now being read for the first time in two thousand years.
D1eop TIL that whales can't breathe involuntarily. If you anesthetize one, it will suffocate, even out of the water.