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I\u2019m not gonna lie\u2026I\u2019m addicted to listicles\u2026not the click-baity ones that have sub-headlines like \u201cand you won\u2019t believe #6!\u201d\u2026I\u2019m only interested in the ones that offer interesting or weird facts\u2026usually that means Buzzfeed, Bored Panda, Upworthy, Laughing Squid\u2014you know the kind\u2026\u201ctoday I learned\u201d and \u201cI was today years old when I discovered\u201d\u2026that sort of thing\u2026\nHere's one\u2026there is a species of moth that lives in the amazon jungle that drinks the tears of sleeping birds\u2026it\u2019ll sit on a bird\u2019s neck, stick a long proboscis under the bird\u2019s eyelid, and slurp away the tears\u2026I know! Right?...\nHere\u2019s another: until the 1800s, polite people didn\u2019t eat bananas because their shape made them an \u201cimmoral fruit\u201d\u2026importers had to hire women for ads showing them eating bananas to prove that there was nothing wrong with them\u2026\nOkay, okay\u2026one more\u2026and I\u2019m sorry if this is going to trigger you\u2026if you take public transit, approximately 15% of the air you breath contains human skin\u2026all those floating specs you see in the sunlight?...skin\u2026gross, but I love this stuff\u2026\nA big part of my job is searching for facts, although most of what I\u2019m looking for involves music\u2026I\u2019ve heard that if you play hip-hop to a wheel of cheese as it\u2019s maturing, the cheese will have a stronger flavor and aroma\u2026as late as 1948, you could win an Olympic medal for music\u2026and if you want to play music for you dog, choose Reggae\u2026scientists have proven that that\u2019s the music they like the most\u2026\nOver the course of the year of researching and writing this program, I run across all kinds of weird facts\u2026most I can incorporate into various shows\u2026others, not so much\u2026\nBut these orphaned facts need a home\u2026so once every 12 months, I devote a program to clearing out all this information from post-it notes, highlighted passages in books, pages torn from newspapers and magazines, and various files on my computer and throw them all into one program\u2026what you do with this stuff is up to you\u2026this is the annual show I call \u201c60 mind-blowing facts about music in 60 minutes\u201d\u2026\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices