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TIL that “shhh” works for quieting and comforting people because it replicates the sound heard by a fetus of blood going by its ear while it’s in the womb.

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nJor TIL Legendary distiller Jack Daniels’ last words were “One last drink, please.”
QNd5k TIL Mozart died at 35, and wrote 800 pieces, 22 pieces every year he lived.
awvLb TIL The three days without civilian aircraft above the US following 9/11 provided useful data to climatologists about how climate is altered by the high altitude exhaust of planes.
06wA TIL that when Oslo arranged the Olympic Games in 1952, a root beer company had already bought the rights to use the olympic rings on their product to make it seem more like a sports drink, so that the Norwegian Olympic Comittee to had to buy the rights back in order to actually arrange the games.
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