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TIL Half of the Viking warriors were female

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WkelN TIL there are only two organs with 64′ pipes (stops) in the world. The lowest note of these stops has a frequency of 8 Hz, which humans can just feel, not hear.
JYDW4 TIL that in Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse, certain scenes such as the forest swinging scene, Miles was animated a 12 frames a second while Peter was animated at 24 frames a second, making Miles look less smooth. This was done to show Miles' inexperience at being Spiderman compared to Peter.
VM8yQ TIL James Irwin, the 8th person to walk on the moon, quit NASA to begin expeditions in search of Noah's Ark.
O4Og TIL the US government commissioned teams of artists and scientists to devise ways to warn humans 10,000 in the future of buried radioactive waste. One suggestion was to breed cats whose fur changed color when exposed to radiation, then immortalize the cats in song and legend.
oRlyY TIL about the Symbionese Liberation Army, a militant far left organization which had 6 members killed in a shootout with the LAPD in 1974. They also murdered 2, citizens, robbed banks, and kidnapped people all in the name of freedom.