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TIL Rivers Cuomo of Weezer wrote a program to select songs for the band's cover album, the Teal Album. The program gathered data from Spotify's API to find the most popular songs released before 1994 not tagged "classic rock" or "alternative rock".

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NRXb TIL that the man on NASA’s CAPCOM that said, “Challenger, go at throttle up” just before it exploded was the pilot on the very next shuttle mission.
b9n19 TIL the CIA once paid prostitutes to lure individuals into monitored safe houses in New York, San Francisco, & Marin. The prostitutes then gave their clients LSD and other substances while the CIA watched through one way glass.
JB5B TIL That both Christopher Walken and James Earl Jones have both recorded “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe for your enjoyment.
oRVeo TIL that the formal name for the pee hole is the urinary meatus. It is the same in females and males.
AJPw TIL a “deadbeat” in credit card terms means someone who pays their credit card balance full every month