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TIL Rick James and Neil Young were once in the same band and actually lived in the same house.

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5bN9 TIL there is a light bulb in California that has been almost continuously burning since 1901, and has been cited as evidence of planned obsolescence in modern technology.
l761r TIL that there is a music genre called Retrowave, which combines nostalgic synth and modern beats to imitate music from the 80s (but real 80s sounds different)
OoYwX TIL road damage mostly results from trucks and buses. The damage a vehicle causes is proportional to the axle load raised to the fourth power, so doubling the weight an axle carries actually causes 16 times as much damage.
kE7E TIL that 27 million Soviet citizens died in WWII. By comparison, 1.3 million Americans have died as a result of war since 1775.
dDyJj TIL that in 2011, Dutch TV hosts dine on fried human buttock and belly. Cannibalism is allowed in the Netherlands, as long as you legally obtain human flesh or limbs.