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TIL that the Alt-J album cover “An awesome wave” is a European Space Agency satellite image of the Ganges River Delta in Bangladesh and India and was found by the band when they searched for images related to the word “delta”, the triangle symbol for the band

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E1w00 TIL that until the early 20th century boys were routinely dressed like girls until they were 6 or 7 when they were "breeched", that is dressed in pants rather than dresses.
69vy8 TIL: In 2020, a betta fish was able to victoriously complete Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire on live stream with a control system mapped to his tank. Over 4 months, he completed the game by defeating the final champion and even discovered a game bug along the way.
JBVQ TIL that almost every successful pop song in the last 20 years was written by one man, Max Martin. He has a net worth of $250,000,000.
D1Zvr TIL that there is a man called José Salvador Alvarenga who holds the Guinness World Record for longest time being lost at sea. He was lost for 438 days in a boat that was about 7 meters long and almost one meter wide. He survived by eating raw fish, turtles and birds and by drinking rain water.
7r8nO TIL that the Texas City Refinery explosion was the result of a hydrocarbon vapor cloud being ignited by a runaway diesel engine. The vapor served as excess fuel (sucked through the air intake) creating a positive feedback loop. As the engine overheated, it backfired igniting the surrounding cloud.