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TIL the former members of Timbuk 3 have refused to license the song "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades" for commercials, including a $900,000 offer from AT&T and offers from Ford, the U.S. Army, and Bausch & Lomb for their Ray-Ban sunglasses.

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XBWE TIL there is a galaxy called LEDA 074886 that has a rectangular shape.
GbY7 TIL the Amazon Rainforest area originally had terrible farming soil, until indigenous people invented a “superdirt” which remains fertile for thousands of years, renews and propagates by itself, and may currently cover as much as 10% of the Amazon basin.
Y7ZMx TIL: Regularly occurring bouts of retinal movements suggest an REM sleep–like state in jumping spiders | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1aDMr TIL that computers are incapable of producing randomness so when perfoming tasks like procedural generation they use outside sources like the mouse position or the fan noise as a starting point or even use "pseudorandom" generation algorithms using pre-made numbers.
8aBEL TIL A Japanese fish called Hanako (1751-1977) lived for 215 years. The longest living koi fish ever recorded.