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TIL that in 2008 there was a music festival called ‘Festival of the fuck bands’ where bands such as Fucked Up, Holy Fuck and Fuck buttons performed live. It was held in Fucking, Austria.

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4XgGo TIL about the "Ridiculously Resilient Ridge", an anticyclone high pressure wall which was blocking the North Pacific storm track from getting rain to California over the last roughly 8 years, causing the state's recent record breaking drought. It has finally dissipated and now we get rain again.
b6ogZ TIL that the first writing system evolved from accounting practices in ancient Mesopotamia. Over a thousand years later, Chinese writing independently developed from divination practices in ancient China.
9K6Q TIL that Bavarians of Hitler’s era referred to his style of mustache as a Rotzbremse, or “snot brake.”
EEnd TIL scientists think there is a link between our improved sanitary habits and the increase in allergies and auto-immune disorders because our immune systems are looking for something to fight.
E198P TIL: Pilots of the SR-71 Blackbird were often tasked to fly over heads of state triggering a shockwave to remind countries what they were doing was against US policy