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TIL that people with a stutter can sing without stuttering because the brain functions differently while speaking than when singing

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LklZp TIL that in 1958 the Soviets reached one of the most remote places in Antarctica where they built a cabin. When they left they placed a bust of Lenin on top of the chimney facing in the direction of Moscow, which today is now the only thing standing above the snow
woLmW TIL about Fordlândia, a very large plot of land that Henry Ford purchased in Brazil. He developed and utilized this land in order to try and meet the need for his own rubber production for his car tires. This project would eventually fail and was abandoned in 1934.
4XYXg TIL that Oskar Schindler abandoned his wife after going bankrupt and returned to Germany, leaving her in Argentina. They never saw each other again in the 20 years before his death, though they remained married. The final scene of Schindler's List was her first time ever seeing his grave.
EgJO0 TIL that SimCity was going to have an NES version along with the SNES version but was then canceled after being in favor of focusing on the SNES version.
j6nvp TIL there was a breed of dog called the Turnspit dog whose only job was to turn spits of meat by running in a large hamster wheel. As the job became obsolete, Turnspit dogs became extinct.