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TIL the concept of Dibs is almost culturally universal.

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69XOX TIL Jacked Up! was a segment on ESPN showing the most violent hits in the National Football League. It was cancelled by ESPN in the wake of concussion studies that showed a correlation with violent football collisions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE.
9YLoM TIL Monobloc plastic chairs are so widely used in the world, because of this, they became 'context-free object' for academic studies.
WkVmd TIL Ludwig van Beethoven, who was almost completely deaf, discovered Bone Conduction. Beethoven found a way to hear the sound of the piano through his jawbone by attaching a rod to his piano and clenching it in his teeth.
Wkkm9 Man, that comet really reeks
epvNn TIL a California serial killer dubbed the “Tipster Killer” would anonymously call a crime‑tip hotline after each of his murders—providing directions to his victims’ bodies so he could collect the reward.