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TIL Nick Drake recorded the album Pink Moon in 4 hours, with himself on all instruments. It was ranked #48 on Melody Maker’s list of 100 All Time Greatest Albums

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mxaMM TIL that bloodhound´s sense of smell is so accurate, it can be used as evidence in court. Apparently they can follow tracks over 130miles. That’s just crazy
Z8Bmv TIL all female mammals have a clitoris
e1BD TIL the FBI seized a server that was being used to host child pornography and ran it for two more weeks. Defendants caught in the sting argued the FBI did a better job hosting a child porn site than whoever originally ran it: The site’s average weekly visitors jumped from 11,000 to 50,000
xWYk TIL The synthesizer that Ferris Bueller uses to simulate his realistic-sounding coughs is an E-MU Emulator II, which at the time went for around $8,000. That’s equivalent to over $17,000 in today’s dollars. Having said that, if he were to have traded it in, he definitely could have afforded a car.
AVy4 TIL that Nirvana was adamantly told not to play the song “Rape Me” at the 1992 MTV Music Awards. Nevertheless, at the start of the performance, Cobain started playing the chords to “Rape Me” as MTV producers watched in horror. He then switched back to “Lithium”, as scheduled.