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TIL in June 1979, there was a record in the billboard top 100 called Ready N steady by D.A. This record is so rare to find that people are questioning it’s existence. This is called a case of “phantom recording”

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woexP TIL of the mud dauber, a family of wasps that creates nest out of dried mud. 176 people were killed in a plane crash believed to have been caused by a nest in a pitot tube, leading to faulty speed readings
x6Jx1 TIL that when trying to select a new name for the Canadian Northwest Territories the name Bob came in second place in the top choices
XEBZ6 TIL Blobfish aren't naturally ugly, but the way they are commonly known is the result of tissue damage when they are rapidly brought to the ocean's surface from their habitat 3,000 feet below sea level.
E1OVo TIL about Richard Feynman who taught himself trigonometry, advanced algebra, infinite series, analytic geometry, and both differential and integral calculus at the age of 15. Later he jokingly Cracked the Safes with Atomic Secrets at Los Alamos by trying numbers he thought a physicist might use.
neaGB TIL: In 1982, 3 men in Allentown, PA sat on a billboard for 261 days to win a house. It was to promote the station, WSAN-AM’s format change from country music to nostalgic hits. Instead of promoting the station, the contest became a story that symbolized the economic struggles of the early 1980s.