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TIL The River Thames used to be a tributary of the Rhine

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gd68 TIL David Bowie said “In America especially, when I do ‘The Man Who Sold The World’ the amount of kids that come up afterwards and say, 'It’s cool you’re doing a Nirvana song.’ And I think, 'Fuck you, you little tosser!’”
yQDbM TIL A battery has been ringing a bell for 180 years and we don’t know what its made of
p88kp Street names aside, who comes up with crazy non-words like Zyrtec, tenofovir and Xeljanz?
lovna TIL that in 1969, scientists tested The Ben Franklin Effect and found that, yes, asking people favors (when used strategically) is a tool to get them to like you more.
l7oj5 TIL about Narcocorridos or drug songs commissioned by drug cartels to sing about the illegal drug business