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TIL that an invention called the Radiovota would have essentially allowed 1930’s radio listeners to up-/downvote broadcasts.

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gMoP4 TIL that when a critic insulted the nudity in Michelangelo's The Last Judgment, the painter punished him by painting the critic's likeness onto the body of Minos, the judge of the underworld; he then further insulted the critic by giving the likeness donkey ears and having a snake bite his genitals.
RJ0l TIL that Kurt Vonnegut, when asked by people if there was anyone he’d rather be, said “Jerry Orbach (of Law & Order fame), without a question … I talked to him one time, and he’s adorable.”
9Yk6Q TIL when the band The Verve received their first record company advance, singer Richard Ashcroft spent all of the money on having a piping hot lasagne delivered to his door every day until the cash ran out
VWdG TIL there are fish that live under Antarctica, beneath 740 meters of ice in a 10-meter-deep section of water. Scientists are still unsure on how they manage to sustain themselves.
dDXrd TIL about "Typhoon Tip," the largest recorded hurricane with a diameter of over 1,300 miles, nearly half the size of the United States -- which occurred in 1979.