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TIL Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother has an essentially infinite runtime. The final track Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast ends with the sound of a dripping faucet etched into a run off grove that never resolves and will play until the listener stops the record.

BgGLD TIL that sliced bread was first sold on 7 July 1928, by the Chillicothe Baking Company in Missouri. It was hailed as “the greatest forward step in baking since bread was wrapped” and by 1933, 80% of US bread was pre-sliced, leading to the popular idiom “the greatest thing since sliced bread.”
Z8GRG TIL There used to be millions of Bisons across North America until we hunted them to near extinction
X0DrQ TIL Video game artist, Claire Hummel, observed fan-drawn porn of one of her characters, Lutece of BioShock; was so irritated by the anachronistic undergarments that she posted a guide on drawing time-accurate undergarments. She didn't discourage risque fan art as she herself had drawn lewd fanart
OoL77 TIL rat-baiting was a common sport in 19th-century England. Occasionally desperate men would compete against dogs to see who could kill the most rats, some of the more successful becoming minor celebrities.
Me6n7 TIL About Africville, the black community of Halifax that was purposefully neglected by the city in an effort to make it un-livable. Halifax denied sewage, roads, and other services, even creating a toxic waste dump nearby, eventually Halifax bulldozed the community with people still in their houses