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TIL that Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers is a hallmark of bad recording being horribly overcompressed

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a8jA0 TIL the Roman Empire lasted over 1,400 years, influencing modern law, architecture, and languages across Europe and beyond.
woAZ7 Today I learned that heavenly bamboo is used as an ornamental plant by cultivators, but it is an incredibly invasive species and very poisonous to birds & mammals.
7GL TIL there is a small island near Bali that openly sells and embraces magic mushrooms. It seems to be a large part of its local economy
W7VQ4 TIL that sandhill cranes have one of the longest fossil histories of any extant bird. The oldest confirmed sandhill crane fossil is 2.5 million years old, while most living species of birds date back to less than 1.8 million years.
AD7Qg TIL of the practice of "Fox Tossing", a once popular sport involving catapulting a live fox (or a badger or a hare or a wolf or whatever) as high as possible and dodging it as it falls.