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TIL the hats worn by the band Devo are called "Energy Domes"

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LkldZ TIL the English word weird originally meant 'having the power to control fate', which is why Shakespeare named his witches in Macbeth The Weird Sisters. Later depictions of them dressed in odd and strange ways led to the current definition of the word.
E1jdd TIL Britney Spears has an official music video where she is anime character that destroys a cloning laboratory. The song is pretty good too.
BZK TIL andy kaufman produced the arguably greatest troll idea in history, in which he demanded during a mainstream show he was an actor for, that they broadcast 30 seconds of static to fuck with people who would think their TVs were broken
0db4M TIL the bite of the Brazilian Wandering Spider causes a penile erection that can last for several hours
0ep TIL that due to “Red” and “Read” not being homophones in Italian, French and German, the answer to the riddle “What is black & white and red all over?” is answered with the name of a Communist newspaper.