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TIL that every Depeche Mode studio album since Songs of Faith and Devotion in 1993 has hit #1 in Germany. That's 8 albums in a row now.

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a80oL TIL reproduction via Sex started in Scotland A team of researchers says a fish called Microbrachius dicki is the first-known animal to stop reproducing by spawning and instead mate by having sex. The primitive bony fish, lived in ancient lakes about 385 million years ago in what is now Scotland
rRX8w TIL: Americans call a knob of butter "a stick" of butter.
PYdXn TIL some scientists think our universe is formed through the process of 'quantum annealing' - more commonly known as a type of quantum computing
epPKJ TIL about Joachim-Raphael Boronali, an Italian painter touted by Roland Dorgelès as a pioneer of expressionism, who turned out to be a donkey named Lolo. Dorgelès would paint some blocks on canvas, then tie a brush to Lolo's tail to make scribbles. Dorgelès did this as a take-that to expressionism.
R7X98 TIL that quahogs (a common clam) are among the longest-lived marine organisms in the world and can live up to 200 years old. They don't reproduce until around 6 years old, and don't reach commercially harvestable size until about 20 years old.