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TIL that the second smallest size classification of an iceberg is called a “Bergy Bit”

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D17Yg TIL With hearing loss, the signal from the ear becomes weak and noisy, like a poorly-tuned radio. The brain's predictive mechanisms therefore have to work very hard to make sense of what we are hearing. These processes sometimes end up running away with themselves to cause musical hallucinations
9w7BG TIL the idiom "Keeping up with the Joneses" came from a comic strip of the same name that ran in U.S. newspapers from 1913-1940. It featured the McGinis family, often struggling to keep up socially and materially with their neighbors, the unseen Joneses.
P1JOn TIL Hulk Hogan Helped Prevent Jesse Ventura From Starting A Wrestlers Union
4XBMg TIL Bill Gates succeeded in his mission to build a Toilet to help combat the sanitary crisis across multiple parts of Africa and India. Costing $350, its powered by worms, and doesnt require to be hooked up to a sewer system.
xV1n7 TIL the reason drummers have such a hard time playing exactly like Ringo Starr is because he’s a left handed drummer playing on a right handed set.