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TIL Whitney Houston's National Anthem for SB XXV, Which is Considered Among the Best Renditions Ever...was Lip-synched.

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gM8KW TIL Sign language users experience "tip of the finger" just like how English speakers experience "tip of the tongue".
LJ8P TIL that an estimated 40 million Chinese people live in caves
vP1Ej TIL of Serge Voronoff, a French surgeon that was known as the "monkey gland man". He claimed to rejuvenate his patients, transplanting the testicles of executed criminals into millionaires, turning to using monkey testicles when supplies ran low. Over 500 men were treated with his technique.
v1o7D TIL that in June of last year, a swan living in Manchester, England died of a broken heart when teenagers threw bricks at her nest and killed all but one of her unborn cygnets and drove off her mate due to stress
QJ6Xk TIL in 1958 Mao Zedong began a campaign to eliminate the Eurasian Tree Sparrow, leading to a severe ecological imbalance and contributing to the Great Chinese Famine where 15-55 million people starved to death.