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TIL that in 1993 Todd Rundgren released the first interactive album, No World Order, for the Philips CD-i (under the name TR-i). The disc allowed listeners to listen to six different versions of the album from guest producers and make their own mix.

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grZdX TIL the Interstate Highway Numbers have meanings. Odd Numbers go primarily North-South. Even Numbers go primarily East-West. Adding a 2 (such as 295) usually designates a loop returning to its parent highway (95).
GYvr1 TIL that while writing the popular 1990s song Friday I'm in Love, The Cure frontman Robert Smith became convinced that he stole the tune from somewhere, and was so paranoid that he called every person he knew and played the song for them, asking if they recognized it. It was, indeed, unique.
ymel TIL Scientists in the Netherlands are developing an ocean cleaning system which uses the ocean’s currents and a barrier to remove plastic waste. A 100 km long system will be deployed in 2020 to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
R1G1 TIL that in 1968 there were four mysterious submarine disappearances. The USS Scorpion, the Israeli submarine INS Dakar, the French submarine Minerve and the Soviet submarine K-129 all went down.
Y70Qr TIL that George Lucas named the planet Tatooine after the region of Tunisia where he filmed those scenes - Tataouine.