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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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oBaoA TIL of Shoichi Yokoi, a sergeant in the Japanese Army during WW2. He went into hiding after the Battle of Guam, living in the jungle with several others for 28 years, though he was alone for the remaining 8 years. After his capture he returned to Japan, married and became a popular TV personality.
O656 TIL the war hero Ewan McGregor portrayed in Black Hawk Down is a convicted child molester
0Vl5 TIL- Pawpaw, the largest edible fruit native to North America is pollinated by flies because the flowers smell like rotting meat, the fruit tastes like a banana/mango
awOWN TIL that Pythagoras cannot have been the first to discover the Pythagorean theorem because it was known and used by the Babylonians over a millennium before he was born.
OG9Oa TIL the concorde used fuel pumps and multiple fuel tanks to move its fuel around mid-flight to trim its center-of-mass to help maintain stability as it passed supersonic speeds.