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TIL Regis Philbin is a honorary Wu Tang Clan member

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7rGmr TIL the hats worn by the band Devo are called "Energy Domes"
NXaD6 TIL about The United States 100,000 bill, the largest denomination note in the story of the USA which was issued from 1934 to 1935. And although 42,000 were printed, only 12 remain in existence and it's illegal to own one.
Vx8B TIL that the Devo album “Oh no! It’s Devo” was born out of critical reviews in which the band were alternately described as both “fascists” and “clowns”, leading the band to ask, “what would an album by fascist clowns sound like?”
BrX4k TIL in 1975 Ingo Bethke escaped from East Germany by floating on an air mattress across the Elbe. 8 years later his brother Holger fled East Berlin by firing an arrow with a rope tied to it and zip lining accross. The two then flew their brother Egbert over the wall on a homemade ultralight in 1989.
epWRn TIL AI scientists put a 1 in 6 chance that AI advances will lead to human extinction or similarly permanent and severe disempowerment of the human species