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TIL that the Guinness world record for the longest album title is held by Chumbawamba, with a 156 word long album usually shortened to "The Boy Bands Have Won". (Full title in comments)

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LYBd TIL U2 pilots were given cyanide suicide pills. After a pilot almost accidentally ingested a suicide pill instead of candy during a flight, the suicide pills were put into boxes to avoid confusion.
88pL TIL Pi appears as the average ratio of the actual length and the direct distance between source and mouth of most rivers.
N71d8 TIL that World War II WASP pilot Katherine Dussaq married the inventor of the polygraph machine and was herself a renowned forensics expert who ran an all-women detective agency. Katherine died in a service-related crash in November of 1944, only weeks away from the disbanding of the WASP.
ADDgx TIL Gary Webb, the reporter from the San Jose Mercury News who first broke the story of CIA involvement in the cocaine trade, was found dead with "two gunshot wounds to the head." His death, in 2004, was ruled a suicide.
9Yj5G TIL, American pilots flew P-51 Mustangs in Very Long Range misisons operating from the island of Iwo Jima during WW2. These 7+ hour missions involved flying 3 hours across the open Pacific to targets in Japan and then 3+ hours return flight. Threats included bad weather, flak, enemy planes, etc.