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TIL: Your brain will shrink if you have children!
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TIL 2 people (Max Martin and Dr. Luke) are the hidden talents crating virtually every single huge pop song. They define the biggest hits of Taylor Swift, Maroon 5, Katy Perry, Pitbull, Miley Cyrus, P!nk, Ariana Grande, Taio Cruz, Kelly Clarkson, Britney Spears, and Ke$ha.
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TIL the use of the letters Q, X and W in official documents, including for people's names, used to be illegal in Turkey and punishable with two to six months of prison time. The ban was enacted in 1928 and lifted only nine years ago in 2013
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TIL: before the 2014 movie Interstellar, black holes were depicted in media as spinning whirlpools in space, but the movie used a team of physicists to determine how a black hole would look to the human eye
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TIL the Philippine Span Asia Carrier Corporation holds the record for the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster (MV Dona Paz in 1987 - 4385 dead) before having four more of its ships capsize and total at least 1461 more deaths with hundreds more missing. The shipping line still operates today.
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TIL the Guillotine remained the official capital punishment of France until 1981, the last beheading occuring in 1977