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TIL that Weimar Republic's official name was German Reich, and only got its famous name retroactively from Adolf Hitler who called it so.

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NXXKe TIL that the Alt-J album cover “An awesome wave” is a European Space Agency satellite image of the Ganges River Delta in Bangladesh and India and was found by the band when they searched for images related to the word “delta”, the triangle symbol for the band
NXOl1 TIL about “Rain of Fish” in Yoro, Honduras, where fish fall from the sky during heavy rainstorms
R509w TIL that the early 2000s Nickelodeon children's show, "LazyTown", was not only filmed in Iceland but also one of the most expensive children's show ever made (each episode cost nearly $1 million to make)
ZQop TIL that while trying to present about the disease that would later bare his name, Alzheimer was rushed off stage because the conference attendees were excited to hear the next speaker present about compulsive masturbation.
MeKQ8 TIL Robert Altman's 14-year-old son, Michael, wrote the lyrics to "Suicide is Painless" for his dad's movie MAS*H. When the movie was turned into a TV show, the song was used as the theme of the series and he earned over $1 million in royalties.