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TIL that experimental band The Flaming Lips recorded a 24 hour long song called “7 Skies H3” As well, the only version available for purchase is a $5000 hard drive copy of the song encased in a real human skull.

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gr9DX TIL of the Persian campaign in WWI, where (despite its neutrality) Iran suffered 2,000,000 deaths- fourth most of all countries and first in terms of percentage of population.
E1PAV TIL of “Tokyo Rose” aka “Orphan Ann” aka Iva Toguri D'Aquino who in WWII used double entendres to make a farce of Japanese propaganda on her radio show “The Zero Hour” and used part of her $7 a month paycheck to smuggle food to POWs
D195e TIL A French Embassy worker engaged in a nearly 2 decades-long relationship with a Chinese individual he thought was a female, committing espionage to secure her and their supposed child's freedom from China. The true sex--male--of the French men's lover was not revealed until their arrest.
Oo1x6 TIL some people truly are "born miserable." According to researchers, some people are genetically programmed to be more negative than others due to the levels of a molecule, neuropeptide Y, being lower in their brains than others.
rRMm1 TIL that Mo Rocca was a staff writer on the 90s children's television classic Wishbone