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TIL that Zac Efron actually recorded all the songs for High School Musical, but his parts were dubbed over by Drew Seeley. Efron was not informed of the reason for this.

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0d0yN TIL the 2024 Ig Nobel prize in physiology was awarded to researchers who discovered that mammals can breathe through their anuses. This might offer an alternative way of getting oxygen into critically ill patients if ventilator & artificial lung supplies run low.
gMmLb TIL President Lincoln was one of only 3 targets on the night he was assassinated. The Secretary of state was beaten almost to death that night, and the VP's assassin chickened out drunk in a hotel bar.
eke5 TIL an Imperial Wizard of the KKK successfully appealed to the US 3rd Circuit Court that possession of a pipe bomb was not a crime of violence, and was released in 2012
v1Rpr TIL that after Beethoven went deaf, he found he could affix a metal rod to his piano and bite down on it while he played, enabling him to hear perfectly through vibrations in his jawbone. The process is called bone conduction.
QlkX TIL The largest claymore sword on record measured 7 feet 6 inches (2.24 m) and weighed 23 pounds (10 kg). It was wielded by a 15th-century Scottish giant.