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TIL Tool's CD Lateralus is composed so if you reorder the tracks using the Fibonacci sequence, you get a new album: "The Holy Gift"

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9j9X TIL in 1851, we had measuring tools with a precision of one millionth of an inch.
BbJy TIL that prior to the income tax being enacted in 1913, the U.S. government got up to 40% of its revenue from alcohol taxes. Without the income tax in place, the Prohibition Amendment would likely not have been proposed by the Senate in 1917.
AXd TIL Koalas can ask people for water when its hot.
v1yyK TIL that in the original novels, James Bond was found to consume, on average, 92 units of alcohol a week. His preference for martinis “shaken, not stirred” may have stemmed from an inability to stir his drinks due persistent shaking from alcohol induced tremors.
9YlQ7 TIL Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanically active world in the Solar System, has volcanic eruptions so powerful that they can be seen with large telescopes on Earth