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TIL Johnny Cash took only three voice lessons in his childhood before his teacher, enthralled with Cash's unique singing style, advised him to stop taking lessons and to never deviate from his natural voice.

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Xe7D TIL a single blood donor in Australia is credited with saving more than 2 million lives.
dDXPj TIL in the 1800s the USDA gave farmers an herbicide to combat ragwort, a weed toxic to horses and cows. They'd spray sodium chlorate but get some on their pants. The dried sodium chlorate was high highly flammable leading to an epidemic of EXPLODING PANTS.
5Y1mR TIL hundreds of dead animal carcasses including pets were found in West Virginia in the woods. Some had been decapitated and a few had intravenous tubes inserted in their forelegs.
Wk5NA TIL that natural skin condoms do not protect against STDs because the pores in the condoms are large enough to allow viruses to pass through.
b91DN TIL that parts from Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 were recovered from the Everglades and used in other EAL planes, after which the airline's employees started to report ghost sightings of Flight 401's pilots in those planes, which ceased when the cannibalised parts were removed