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TIL Sonic Youth’s highly experimental 2000 album NYC Ghosts & Flowers was the result of the bands irreplaceable guitars and effects pedals being stolen in 1999.

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m18px TIL of Ringer Edwards, an Australian prisoner of war, who survived being crucified for 63 hours by Japanese soldiers during World War II. He died in 2000 at the age of 86.
1Kx8 TIL that Superman compresses his spine as Clark Kent to become shorter in order to help hide his identity
VQpZ TIL that on an 8x8 chessboard, there are 26,534,728,821,064 ways for a knight to visit every square once and end up back at the square it started from.
0d16v TIL that GHB and other drugs can be consumed by sharing vape cartridges AND that there is a nail polish that will change colors if you dip your finger in your drink and drugs are detected
VMelZ TIL Charles Simonyi was the first billionaire to go to space. Simonyi, a software architect and early Microsoft employee, paid a total of $60 million for two trips to the International Space Station. He entered orbit and spent a total of 4 weeks in space.