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Today I learned that the lead singer of The Offspring is a doctor fighting to cure HIV

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nWDjb TIL Queen Alexandra, Queen consort to King Edward VII, wore high collars and chokers to conceal a neck scar, and walked with a slight limp caused by rheumatic fever. Her style and popularity were so influential that women began copying the 'Alexandra limp' and chokers became highly fashionable.
KYXDR TIL sound travels at 343 m/s in air, 1,481 m/s in water (almost 4.3 times as fast) and at 5,120 m/s in iron (almost 15 times as fast) and in diamond sound travels at 12,000 metres per second (39,000 ft/s),[2]— about 35 times its speed in air because of how exceptionally stiff diamond is.
oBP5K TIL that in 2010, a man from the West Midlands, UK, was arrested for recording his neighbour’s noisy dogs and playing the noise back at his neighbour.
4gro TIL A Man once escaped from a blizzard shelter by cutting his way out of it with a knife fashioned from his own feces.
0w95j TIL Harvard majors are called "concentrations," and before WWII, students often innocently referred to the school as "The Concentration Camp"