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TIL That Brooklyn Nine-Nine has the most words per minute at 206

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J1d9j TIL that on Jupiter's moon Io, tidal effects from Jupiter cause the ground itself to move up and down by 300 feet. Typical tidal range on earth is 3 feet in the open ocean.
neEAW TIL: Japan has one of the highest cremation rates in the world with the country reporting a cremation rate of 99.97%.
746Z TIL the song “Edelweiss” in “The Sound of Music” was written for the musical, but sounded so much like a classic folk song that after the first performances, native Austrians said they were delighted to “hear that old folk tune again”
jNjpQ TIL that the Milky Way has two expanding bubbles attached to its core that are entirely powered by gamma rays. These objects, literally “burped out” by the galaxy and known as "Fermi bubbles," are some of the weirdest objects in the universe
KOwWR TIL that the scream before the guitar solo in the Kinks' "You Really Got Me" was used to overdub Dave Davies telling his brother Ray to "fuck off."