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TIL in 2015, funk band Vulfpeck took advantage of Spotify’s payment system and released a 5 minute album consisting of just silence called “Sleepify”, told their fans to listen to it on repeat while they slept, and ended up making $20k which funded future album releases and tours.

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wLZvE TIL that in 1999, 40 million people suddenly lost power in the Philippines, igniting fears of a possible military coup, only to find out that the cooling pipes of one power grid had sucked up 50 dump truck’s worth of jellyfish which caused the outage.
4eN TIL Canada has nearly twice as many indigenous people as Brazil
YemA TIL 13% of the world’s adults – 630 million people – say they would like to leave their country and move somewhere else permanently.
wLkVo TIL that a Spanish government worker was absent from work for six years but continued receiving a salary of $41,500 annually and his bosses only found out when he was eligible for a long service award. He retired in the end.
D1dWg TIL that fentanyl lollipops are used in the US military to treat combat casualties. They are taped to the victim's finger so that, once sedated, they let the lollipop fall from their mouth to reduce the chance of overdoses.