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TIL a study in 2008 found that loud music in bars increases alcohol consumption because it makes people talk less and drink more

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vPELB TIL that both High Band 5G Network Frequency and Active Denial Crowd Control Systems use Millimeter Wave Microwave Technology
yQRxJ TIL that the Finnish Civil War of 1918 was the deadliest civil conflict in the world in relation to the population until the Rwandan Genocide of 1994
RGp8 TIL The Pope made an appearance and apology to a group of Christians called the Waldensians in 2015 for how the catholic church used to torture and massacre them in the past.
awLGN TIL Up until the early 1900s, German used to be the dominant language of international science. "The story of the 20th Century is not so much the rise of English as the serial collapse of German as the up-and-coming language of scientific communication".
P1MrV TIL there is a subspecies of Canada Goose once thought of as extinct, called the Giant Canada Goose, which grow from 17-24lbs in size, compared to the 7-9lbs of a typical Canada Goose