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TIL there is a whale that roams alone and sings at a frequency no other whale can understand - dubbed 52 Hertz, he is the loneliest whale in the world

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d8YOd TIL that a 1950s and 60s Greenwich Village street poet named Big Brown had an enormous influence on Kerouac and the Beats, Bob Dylan, and proto-Hip Hop with Rudy Ray Moore (Dolemite) and The Last Poets. Dylan referred to his poems as "the best poetry I ever heard".
epx4n TIL the Children's Python is a relatively small python species that lives in Australia. It's named after English zoologist John George Children.
eKQE TIL In 1958 Dutch Composer Tom Dissevelt tried to make “popular” electronic music. This track was the result. You could say he was 30 years ahead of his time.
A7Pg TIL violent crime in the US has actually dropped 15% in the past 10 years.
N8VE TIL that Jimmy Carter played a major role in eliminating guinea-worm disease - a parasite that is drank, and then burrows out of your body in the form of a worm.