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TIL the photo on the cover of Neil Young’s album “Silver and Gold” was taken with his daughter’s Game Boy camera.

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QJ7Na TIL the Wood Frog can go eight months without peeing. While it hibernates, it uses the urea (the main waste in urine) to protect their cells and tissues, even as the critters heart, brain and bloodstream stop.
P98G TIL in 1938 A Jewish man Joined the German army, and had his picture used in Nazi propaganda with the description “The Ideal German Soldier”
ANNwx TIL that in 2007 a marketing campaign for Aqua Teen Hunger Force led to a bomb scare and 2 million dollars in damages
l7jv1 TIL Benjamin Franklin invented an instrument called the Glass Armonica. A musician powered a foot pedal to rotate 36 concentric glass bowls and produced notes by putting wet fingers to the spinning glass.
KOKZa TIL Abraham Lincoln was clinically depressed for most of his life