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TIL A study found that people would rather give themselves electric shocks than sit in the silence of their thoughts

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ADJ8g TIL water makes different pouring sounds depending on its temperature.
8e1ZK TIL that there are very few figurative statues in honour of enslaved people in the entire Caribbean - only 6!
D8Ap TIL a company called Excite turned down the opportunity to buy Google in 1999 for $1 million. Google’s founders then said they would take $750,000 only for Excite to pass a second time. Google now was a market cap of $167 billion.
DWLY TIL of Jennifer Bricker. Born with no legs and left at the hospital. From early age she wanted to be a gymnast and idolized American Olympian Dominique Moceanu. At the age 16 she discovered they were actually sisters.
NXmJ8 TIL Many of Benny Blanco's early tracks are at 120 BPM, the default tempo in Pro Tools, and he didn't realize he could adjust it, so he ended up using that tempo for many of his initial projects. This included hits like Kesha's "Tik Tok," Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream," and Taio Cruz's "Dynamite”