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TIL in 1978 Richard Branson tried to get DEVO to make John Lydon(Johnny Rotten) their lead singer. Obviously they declined…

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woMjP TIL that on 10th February 1890 an estimated 180,000 mummified cats, weighing 19.5 tons, were shipped from Egypt to Liverpool, auctioned, and sold for fertilizer
eZ9n TIL of a Dutch nursing home which provides free housing to college students in return for being good neighbors, interacting with older residents, attending parties, etc to ward off loneliness and depression common in the elderly.
E1rnd TIL bout Emma Haruka Iwao, a Japanese computer scientist who this year broke the record of most digits of Pi calculated, at 31.4 trillion.
P6ww TIL the feeling of euphoric chills some people can get while listening to music is called ‘frisson’ (pronounced “free-sawn”), and researches have described the sensation as a skin orgasm.
VDrZ TIL shyness is an evolutionary adaptation; whereas the braver animals may find more mates and eat more food, the shyer individuals, hiding on the sidelines, might avoid attack.