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TIL "Stomp Clap Hey Music" has a specific genre name called Stomp and Holler

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D1RGD TIL Big Bang Theory character Leonard Hofstadter was named after Robert Hofstadter; an American physicist who jointly won a Nobel Prize in Physics.
P1JrZ TIL about Humus Sapien, created by Michael Barreiro that won a contest to have a fan-submitted character become a Marvel character in FOOM, the official Marvel fanzine, in 1973, and was eventually officially published in a Marvel comic-in 2001.
9YnP6 TIL when you blink your brain treats it as a tiny nap. Giving the average person between 20,000 and 30,000 two-tenths of a second naps every day, or roughly 10 percent of their waking hours.
eeEg TIL that there are many untouched plane wrecks in various parts of the UK, dating back to the Second World War, and that removing them is forbidden.
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