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TIL that MIT researchers studying tongue twisters developed “Pad kid poured curd pulled cod,” which nobody could say 10 times fast. Some who tried it just stopped trying to talk.

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wLxVY TIL that Kirsty MacColl, successful British singer / songwriter and daughter of the composer of "Dirty Old Town", died when she was diving in Mexico, pushing her 15 year old son out of the way of a speeding powerboat that ran her over.
6EK8 TIL there’s a debugging method that uses rubber duck
ljx7 TIL that a coal power plant releases over 100 times more radiation into the environment than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy
v1VMr TIL before the word "blooper" was coined, an out-take was called a "boner" (meaning a boneheaded mistake)
e0Arn TIL that after the band Weezer covered the song "Africa" by Toto, Toto covered the song "Hash Pipe" by Weezer as a response