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TIL the USSR had a televised song contest. Since few people had phones, viewers would turn their house lights ON if they liked a certain song (OFF if they didn’t). The state energy co. recorded the size of each power spike & reported the results to the station to determine points for each contestant

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X0Lp8 TIL not all chordates are vertebrates! There are some funky sponge things and some other funky fish-ish things.
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