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TIL that the band Vulfpeck released a completely silent album on Spotify and asked their fans to play it on repeat while they slept. They earned $20,000 in royaltees before Spotify closed the loophole.

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VBMDm TIL the Marshall Islands is the only sovereign nation not to have had a national soccer team.
rXOe TIL That there was a guy named John Titor who was supposedly a time traveler from the year of 2036. He said that in his timeline in the year of 2015 there will be World War III. Also someone patented his time machine sketches - http://ift.tt/1uoCmzA
OoaLL TIL that rescue dogs tasked with finding survivors at Ground Zero quickly became depressed because they weren't able to find any, causing their handlers to hide in the rubble and give the dogs someone to find.
OomAL TIL the Talmud instructs that no boy should have foreskin removed if two brothers had died from complications of the procedure. By the 12th century, this was said to be based on maternal descent. Rabbinic texts likely offer the earliest recorded evidence for hemophilia, the genetic blood disorder.
YwmP TIL The allies used a ghost inflatable army to trick Hitlers forces.