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TIL about 'The Hum' - an unexplained low frequency humming noise heard across the world by certain people since the 1980's. The Hum has led people to suicide due to its invasiveness.

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NXGJQ TIL that renouncing US citizenship results in permanent loss of gun rights even if that person regains citizenship. (18 U.S.C. § 922(d)(7))
8egoL TIL the band Sugar Ray was named after the famous boxer, Sugar Ray Leonard. Their original band name was Shrinky Dix.
mR6E TIL in 2010, a 3-year old boy playing with his father’s metal detector for the first time discovered a 16th century golden pendant estimated to be worth $4 million.
5Y44B TIL of a "gravity train". If you could dig a tunnel through the center of the earth, a train could travel from one end to the other through force of gravity alone, coming to a gentle stop exactly at the other end.
xAaD TIL the current Earl of Sandwich owns and founded a chain of 24 sandwich shops, the first of which opened in Walt Disney World