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TIL that the music we enjoy as teens (around 13-16) will most likely be the music that we continue to most enjoy in adulthood

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M7QWB TIL Proanthocyanidins, the active ingredient in cranberries that stop UTIs from starting is found at the same level in red delicious and granny smith apples. Unsweetened baking chocolate has 27 times that and dry grape seeds have 90 times.
M1o0 TIL that Psy, the creator of “gangnam style” is a heavy drinker, calling vodka his “best friend” and, I quote, “If I’m happy, I’m drinking, if I’m sad, I’m drinking. If it’s raining, I’m drinking, if it’s sunny, I’m drinking”
M7Ba0 TIL that Takashi Yamazaki, the director of Godzilla: Minus One worked on the puppets used in the SNES Star Fox marketing
ZpDda TIL that scientists believe the earliest known ancestor of humans (and many others), Saccorhytus, was about a millimeter in size and lived between grains of sand on the ocean floor 540 million years ago. It also had a very large mouth, but surprisingly no anus
9wlVG TIL that even though Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor had married and divorced TWICE, she still considered him the love of his life. He must of felt the same way because days before his death he sent her a letter asking for a reconciliation. 24 years later she was buried with the letter.