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TIL Radio GTMO, the Armed Forces radio station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has a vinyl collection of over 20,000 records, including some albums that exist nowhere else.

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o6M8 TIL that the shortest scientific paper ever published had zero words. A clinical psychologist Dennis Upper attempted an experiment: to combat writer’s block by writing about it. His experiment failed, but no results are results all the same, and the paper was published.
v178D TIL former first lady Helen Herron Taft declared that all waiters in the White House would need to have a full head of hair, and banned all bald-headed butlers from the dining room.
5Ya0R TIL that there's an estimated 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) insects alive at any moment, meaning that there's about 124 million animals per acre of land
nXyb TIL In addition to 6m Jews, the Nazis killed up to 11m others who did not fit the Aryan criteria
JYp4v TIL that Doves and Pigeons are the same bird. For example the common pigeon, Columba livia, is called a rock dove or a rock pigeon