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TIL: Mr. Brightside by the Killers has been in the UK Single top 100 for 184 weeks since ‘04 (91st currently)

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yQ0ga TIL The water boatman can produce 99 dB of sound by rubbing its penis across its abdomen
NoYQ TIL that horror/supernatural writer Anne Rice’s birth name was Howard Allen Frances O'Brien. Her parents changed it at age six, it after she introduced herself in school to a nun as “Anne,” a name she found pretty, rather than give her birth name out of embarrassment.
RnE9 TIL that over 1 million white slaves were taken from Europe by Africans. Most were worked to death.
logkr TIL Shakespeare and Cervantes officially died on the same day even though Cervantes died ten days earlier.
nWgeY TIL Sam Wanamaker, actor and the director of the pilot episode of TV series Lancer as featured in Tarantino's Once Upon Time in Hollywood, also led efforts to build a replica of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on London's South Bank, near the original site.