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TIL the CIA used songs like Hit Me Baby One More time and Bye Bye Bye as part of their torture methods

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kpXW TIL you are only eligible to audition for the famous Rockettes if your height is between 5'6" and 5'10 1⁄2" tall. The illusion that all the Rockettes are the same height is created by placing the tallest women at the center of the line and then in descending height order to the ends.
epx6b TIL that Michigan produces both Sweet and Sour Crude Oil
N0v6 TIL that the “jump” you sometimes get while falling asleep is called hypnic myoclonus.
e0MPJ TIL there is a town in Canada named Asbestos
mx64E TIL Loretta Lynn's Song "Coal Miner's Daughter" is 100% a true story. The song describes her dad working all night in the coal mine and hoeing corn all day. Her father really was "a coal miner and subsistence farmer," and she really was born in Butcher Hollow, KY.