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TIL that Leo Fender, inventor of Fender Guitars, never knew how to play the guitar.

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QNgLd TIL that the Yoruba people have the highest likelihood of producing twins in the world. The probability is linked to their consumption of a type of yam which releases a hormone that can cause the ovaries to release an egg from each side.
VWn8 TIL your brain makes decisions before you realize it, according to researchers that used brain imaging to predict what choice people would make before they themselves were aware of having made a decision—prompting reconsideration of what we consider “free will”
ANr8B Today I learned artic researcher have freezers to keep their icecream warm.
ADLEw TIL the govenor of California from 1939-1943 was an atheist
VMBZB TIL that Sir Ian McKellen and Stephen Fry saved a Southampton pub called "The Hobbit" from having to change its name after being threatened with legal action based on the accusations that the pub was committing copyright infringement.