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TIL of Deep Thunder, a weather prediction system created by IBM and processed by Watson. Deep Thunder can accurately predict weather down to a .2 mile (one city block) radius using data it collects from smartphone barometers.

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Br5vk TIL since 8-track tapes have a loop-play function, where after the end the tape is played from the beginning once again, the 8-track version of the Pink Floyd album "Animals" was changed for playing on repeat - a guitar solo connecting the first and the last song on the album was added.
epPR6 TIL every country in the world — except China, Iran, North Korea, Rwanda and the U.S. — pay a statutory royalty to the performing artists for radio and television airplay. In these 5 nations, only songwriters and music publishers get paid for songs played over the air.
QNgKX TIL 8 years ago Taylor Swift accidentally released an 8-second static noise and it went #1 in Canada iTunes in just minutes
xVEYw TIL Robert Reed, the father from The Brady Bunch, was gay but never came out publicly in fear of ruining his career and the show
kOQL4 TIL that in the 12-13 century King Gebre Mesqel Lalibela of the Zagwe Dynasty commissioned the building of 11 massive rock-hewn Churches at Lalibela in the Western Ethiopian Highlands. They used basic tools like hammers and chisels to excavate the churches out of monolithic structures.