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TIL that happy cake day refers to a person's account anniversary, not their birthday

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D17oP TIL The Butthole Surfers were once named The Inalienable Right To Eat Fred Astaire's Asshole.
gr7My TIL cube watermelons were invented by a Japanese graphic designer Tomoyuki Ono in 1978. The melons are grown in boxes and take the shape of the container. They were intended to fit more compactly in fridges and their shape makes them easier to cut as they don't roll.
k004 TIL that 6 babies, the “Kaufering Babies”, were born to Jewish women imprisoned at the Dachau Concentration Camp in WW2 and survived thanks to the kindness of other Jewish prisoners.
j7lQ TIL of Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who discovered radio pulsars. Her thesis supervisor took credit and was awarded a Nobel Prize.
W7G6d TIL in 1991 a warehouse in Wisconsin holding over 4,000 tonnes of butter caught on fire. After five hours the melted butter flooded and formed a "butter river" that was 2-3 feet deep and as much as 5 feet deep in some places. The fire lasted for 8 days.